法律判决仍然令人困惑：为什么此人被判处20年监禁，而此人却因同样的罪行被判处10年监禁？为什么一个人要求民事赔偿，而另一个人却置之不理？法律规则本应回答这些问题，但它们的答案根本不完整。如果有一个理论能够预测和解释法律判决，那不是很好吗？
借鉴唐纳德·布莱克的理论思想，《几何正义：美国的死刑》解决了这些问题，特别关注在美国被判处死刑和执行死刑的人。这本书解释了为什么一些谋杀比其他谋杀更严重，以及被告、受害者和陪审员的社会特征如何影响案件结果。基于该领域最严格的数据，作者们揭示了死刑方面的巨大差异——为什么一个人活着，另一个人却死了。
几何正义对那些从事刑事司法、犯罪学和社会法律研究的人，以及学习量刑、惩戒和死刑课程的学生都很感兴趣。
Geometrical Justice: The Death Penalty in America
Legal decisions continue to mystify: why was this person sentenced to 20 years in prison, but that person to just 10 years for the same crime? Why did one person sue for civil damages, but another let the matter drop? Legal rules are supposed to answer these questions, but their answers are radically incomplete. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have a theory that predicted and explained legal decisions?
Drawing on Donald Black’s theoretical ideas, Geometrical Justice: The Death Penalty in America addresses these issues, focusing specifi cally on who is sentenced to death and executed in the United States. The book explains why some murders are more serious than others and how the social characteristics of defendants, victims, and jurors aff ect case outcomes. Building on the most rigorous data in the field, the authors reveal wide discrepancies in capital punishment – why one person lives, but another person dies.
Geometrical Justice will be of interest to those engaged in criminal justice, criminology, and socio- legal studies, as well as students taking courses on sentencing, corrections, and capital punishment.
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