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Review of Capital defense: Inside the lives of America’s death penalty lawyers by J. B. Gould and M. Pagni Barak
Journal of Criminal Justice Education, Vol.31(3), pp.468-470
2020
Web of Science ID: WOS:000533724400001
Abstract
In Capital Defense: Inside the Lives of America’s Death Penalty Lawyers,authors Jon B. Gouldand Maya Pagni Barak employ a sociological framework to identify and explain the struc-ture and culture of trial-level capital defense in the United States. The authors offer criticalcommentary about the U.S. criminal justice system by examining the social, cultural, andpolitical influences that“never appear in the statutes or case law”(Gould & Pagni Barak,2019, p. 9), but that have bearing on capital adjudication. In line with the book’s mantra,Death is Different,the authors’“central argument is that capital defense is both a special-ized community and distinct culture within law, even among criminal defense as a whole”(Gould & Pagni Barak,2019, pp. 10–11).
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- Title
- Review of Capital defense: Inside the lives of America’s death penalty lawyers by J. B. Gould and M. Pagni Barak
- Publication Details
- Journal of Criminal Justice Education, Vol.31(3), pp.468-470
- Resource Type
- Review
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis; United Kingdom
- Copyright
- © 2020 Lauren A. Ricciardelli
- Identifiers
- WOS:000533724400001; 99380464595106600
- Academic Unit
- Social Work
- Language
- English