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Forgiveness, mercy, and clemency / edited by Austin Sarat and Nasser Hussain.

Title
Forgiveness, mercy, and clemency / edited by Austin Sarat and Nasser Hussain.
Publication
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.

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Additional Authors
  • Hussain, Nasser, 1965-
  • Sarat, Austin
Description
238 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Capital punishment > Moral and ethical aspects
  • Criminal justice, Administration of > United States
  • Clemency
  • Pardon
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Toward new theoretical perspectives on forgiveness, mercy, and clemency : an introduction / Nasser Hussain and Austin Sarat -- Tempering or tampering? Mercy and the administration of criminal justice / Carol S. Steiker -- Should mercy have a place in clemency decisions? / Daniel T. Kobil -- The merciful state / Linda Ross Meyer -- Revising the past : on the metaphysics of repentance, forgiveness, and pardon / Meir Dan-Cohen -- Comparative national blaming : W.G. Sebald on the bombing of Germany / Bruce Robbins -- Keeping the peace / Adam Sitze.
ISBN
  • 0804753326 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0804753334 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780804753326
  • 9780804753333
LCCN
^^2006012940
OCLC
  • 67383942
  • SCSB-10081472
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library