Racializing Mercy
Capital Punishment and Race in Twentieth-Century England and Wales
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 12073722 |
|---|---|
| Autores | L Seal (0000-0003-1727-9653, autor correspondente), Alexa Neale (0000-0003-1127-5176) |
| Ano | 2020 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Fascículo | 4 |
| Páginas | 883-910 |
| Data de publicação | 2020-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Law and History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0738-2480 • E-ISSN: 1939-9022 |
| Editora | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0738248020000371 |
| OpenAlex | W3113385753 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 3 |
| Referências citadas | 39 |
Fifty-seven men of color were sentenced to death by the courts of England and Wales in the twentieth century and were less likely to receive mercy than white contemporaries. Though shocking, the data is perhaps unsurprising considering institutional racism and unequal access to justice widely highlighted by criminologists since the 1970s. We find discourses of racial difference were frequently mobilized tactically in nineteenth- and twentieth-century England and Wales: to support arguments for mercy and attempt to save prisoners from the gallows. Scholars have identified historically and culturally contingent narratives traditionally deployed to speak to notions of lesser culpability. These mercy narratives reveal contemporary ideals and attitudes to gender or class. This article is original in identifying strategic mercy narratives told in twentieth-century England and Wales that called on contemporary tropes about defendants' race. The narratives and cases we explore suggest contemporary racism in the criminal justice system of England and Wales has a longer history than previously acknowledged
Art · Criminal justice · Criminology · Culpability · Economic Justice · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Punishment (psychology · Race (biology · Racism · Sociology · White (mutation · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Gender Studies · History · Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse · Law · Psychology
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Crime, Sexual Violence, and Clemency
Wars among Savages
An Empire on Trial
Archival Dis-Ease
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Dark Strangers” in Our Midst
No Bond but the Law
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Flogging, Fear and Food
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| Obras citantes distintas | 3 |
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| Citações por ano | 1 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Velocidade de citação | recent |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 3 |