Carol S Steiker
Biographic Data
| ID | 4790505 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carol S Steiker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carol S |
| FAMILY NAME | Steiker |
| SIGNATURE | STEIKER C S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of the Death Penalty in the United States
This review addresses four key issues in the modern (post-1976) era of capital punishment in the United States. First, why has the United States retained the death penalty when all its peer countries (all other developed Western democracies) have abolished it? Second, how should we understand the role of race in shaping the distinctive path of capital punishment in the United States, given our country's history of race-based slavery and slavery's…
Comparative Capital Punishment
Courting Death
Gideon 's Problematic Promises
The landmark case of “Gideon v. Wainwright” (1963) ensured the right of criminal defendants across the country to the effective assistance of counsel, but the overwhelming consensus is that the promise of “Gideon” has not been kept. Although there are significant differences in the delivery of indigent defense services across the country, there are four general reasons for the failure of “Gideon” that obtain across every jurisdiction and collecti…
Broken and Beyond Repair
The Last Gasp
Scott Christianson’s The Last Gasp provides an in-depth and often-fascinating account of the origins and relatively short career of the gas chamber, both as a mode of execution in the United States and as a means of Nazi-run genocide in Europe during World War II. The story is told chronologically, beginning with the promotion by Progressive-Era eugenicists of the elimination of “degenerates” and the “unfit” for the greater good, preferably by me…
Tempering or Tampering? Mercy and the Administration of Criminal Justice
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Tempering or Tampering? Mercy and the Administration of Criminal Justice
The Last Gasp
Scott Christianson’s The Last Gasp provides an in-depth and often-fascinating account of the origins and relatively short career of the gas chamber, both as a mode of execution in the United States and as a means of Nazi-run genocide in Europe during World War II. The story is told chronologically, beginning with the promotion by Progressive-Era eugenicists of the elimination of “degenerates” and the “unfit” for the greater good, preferably by me…
Broken and Beyond Repair
Gideon 's Problematic Promises
The landmark case of “Gideon v. Wainwright” (1963) ensured the right of criminal defendants across the country to the effective assistance of counsel, but the overwhelming consensus is that the promise of “Gideon” has not been kept. Although there are significant differences in the delivery of indigent defense services across the country, there are four general reasons for the failure of “Gideon” that obtain across every jurisdiction and collecti…
Courting Death
Comparative Capital Punishment
The Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of the Death Penalty in the United States
This review addresses four key issues in the modern (post-1976) era of capital punishment in the United States. First, why has the United States retained the death penalty when all its peer countries (all other developed Western democracies) have abolished it? Second, how should we understand the role of race in shaping the distinctive path of capital punishment in the United States, given our country's history of race-based slavery and slavery's…
Political science (5 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Criminal justice (3 works) · History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Capital punishment (2 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)