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).
Wretched Sisters. Examining Gender and Capital Punishmend
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- Nombre de pages307
- ISBN978-1-4331-2234-7
- EAN9781433122347
- Date de parution01/10/2014
- CollectionStudies in Crime and Punishmen
- ÉditeurPeter Lang
Résumé
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.