Overview
- Studies the public defense death penalty attorneys in the US through 25 highly unique interviews
- Provides an in-depth insight into the lives of those who decided to become death penalty attorneys
- Speaks accessibly to criminologists, sociologists, law students, legal practitioners and ethnographers
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This book examines the lived experienes of death penalty defense lawyers and how they created a legal culture of resistance to the death penalty. It argues that an important social component of death penalty abolition in the state of Colorado was due to the efforts of capital defense attorneys. Specifically, it explores how the death penalty defense lawyers created and embraced a legal culture of resistance which compelled the attorneys to fight tenaciously in order to win life sentences for clients that had committed brutal homicides. A legal culture of resistance does not exist in a vacuum. Thwarting Death traces the lived experience of 15 death penalty defense lawyers from when they were kids all the way up through retirement to explain how a legal culture of resistance forms and lawyers operate within it after being established which in turn can have a massive influence on public policy outside of a courtroom; such as creating a social and political environmentconducive to abolishing the death penalty.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Matt Greife is an assistant teaching professor at Marquette University, USA, with the Department of Social and Cultural Studies where he teaches courses on law and society, environmental crime law and justice, punishment and corrections and legal culture. Prior to entering academia, Matt worked as a criminal defense and Plaintiff's civil rights attorney litigating cases in federal and state courts. Matt's last position was as the director of civil rights litigation with Baumgartner Law LLC where he successfully litigated numerous claims including violations of the 1st, 4th, 8th and 14th amendments against various governmental agencies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Thwarting Death
Book Subtitle: A Legal Culture of Resistance Among Colorado Death Penalty Defense Lawyers
Authors: Matthew J. Greife
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46133-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-46132-3Published: 02 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-46133-0Published: 01 December 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 141
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Prison and Punishment, Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law, Crime and Society, Human Rights, Critical Criminology, Crime Control and Security