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Author:   Brackette F. Williams
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9780857451248

ISBN 10:   0857451243
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   01 June 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Formal Classification Schemes: A Problem for 21st Century Chapter 1. Informal Classification and Public Moral Outrage Chapter 2. Making Offender and Offended Categoric Identity Disparities Chapter 3. Informal Classification and Untamed Sexual Identity Chapter 4. Formal Classification Schemes: Taming Moral Outrage Chapter 5. Formal Classification: Taming Person Chapter 6. Statutory and Non-statutory Mitigation: Taming Unique Chapter 7. Mitigation: Making Categoric Persons Chapter 8. System Legitimacy: Crossing Nodes, Standards, and Product Quality Chapter 9. Balancing Acts: Principles, Whole Persons, and Sentencing Conclusion: The Wilds of Classification and Cognition Bibliography Index

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This is a scintillating read that goes to the heart of some central and quite shocking dimensions of United States society. The study presents a sustained ethnographic account of the moral and micro-political contests that make and remake classifications that define a crime and a perpetrator as deserving death. The book is a searing critique of the death penalty.A * Diane Austin-Broos, University of Sydney This is an important book, which extends the meaning of ethnography and participant observation because it makes us consider what, not merely who participatesin the actions observed...The book's view of ritualized thought in classification-controlled decisions should encourage students of ritual to rethink the limits currently placed on identifying and understanding ritual in modern society.A * Carol A. Smith, University of California, Davis

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Brackette F. Williams received a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the Johns Hopkins University is currently Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. She has taught at Duke University, Queens College, and the Graduate Center of New York City, The New School for Social Research, the University of California at Berkeley, the Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Chicago. In 1997 she received the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship. As a 2008 Soros Justice Fellow, she conducted a study of the impact of long-term solitary confinement on reentry of persons released from the Arizona Department of Corrections, SMU I and II units.

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