Wretched Sisters - Examining Gender and Capital Punishmend

Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976, fourteen women have been put to death in the United States. The criminal justice system defines crimes committed by women in a particularly gendered context. Wretched Sisters is unique in its analysis of the legal and cultural circumstances that determine why a small number of women are sentenced to death and provides a detailed account of how these fourteen women came to be subjected to the ultimate punishment.

List of contents

Contents: Why So Few and Why These Few? Gender and Criminology - A Capriciously Selected Random Handful - Setting Precedent - She Didn't Look Like a Killer - Domestic Offenses - The Oklahoma Three - Aggravating Circumstances: Killing Children and Cops - The «Monster» - Perilously Close to Simple Murder - Not The «Triggerman» - #500 and #510 - Lessons from Wretched Sisters.

About the author

Mary Welek Atwell holds a PhD in history from Saint Louis University. She is Professor Emerita of Criminal Justice at Radford University. She is the author of Equal Protection of the Law: Gender and Justice in the United States (2002) and Evolving Standards of Decency: Popular Culture and Capital Punishment (2004).

Summary

Wretched Sisters is unique in its analysis of the legal and cultural circumstances that determine why a small number of women are sentenced to death and provides a detailed account of how these fourteen women came to be subjected to the ultimate punishment.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Welek Atwell
• Assisted by: DeJong Christina (Editor of the series), David A. Schultz (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2014
• EAN: 9781433122347
• ISBN: 978-1-4331-2234-7
• No. of pages: 307
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 17 mm x 225 mm
• Weight: 440 g
• Series: Studies in Crime and Punishment; Studies in Crime and Punishment
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Miscellaneous; Frau, Todesstrafe, USA, David, Women, Edition, Gender, Law, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Crime, Mary, Schultz, Capital Punishment, Capital, Christina, Penology and punishment, Penology & punishment, Punishment, criminal justice, sisters, second, Examining, Welek, Atwell, Wretched, DeJong, Geschichte 1976-2007, Punishmend, Capital punishmend