Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I Foundations
5. 1. Perpetual Penal Confinement 25
6. 2. Precursor and Prototype 42
7. 3. The Phenomenon to Be Explained 51
8. Part II Eruptions
9. 4. The Complex Role of Death Penalty Abolition 69
10. 5. The Collapse of a Penal Paradigm 88
11. 6. Governors and Prisoners 103
12. Part III Adaptation and Solidification
13. 7. The US Supreme Court’s Ambivalent Crafting of LWOP 121
14. 8. Abolition and the Alternative 138
15. 9. Life Prisoners, Lifetime Prisons 158
16. Conclusion 169
17. Acknowledgments 187
18. Notes 191
19. Bibliography 249
20. Index 271