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UNINA9910792218803321 |
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Autore |
Manza Jeff |
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Locked out [[electronic resource] ] : felon disenfranchisement and American democracy / / Jeff Manza and Christopher Uggen |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006 |
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0-19-534194-5 |
1-4294-3859-2 |
0-19-534885-0 |
1-280-83349-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (376 p.) |
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Studies in crime and public policy |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Ex-convicts - Suffrage - United States |
Political rights, Loss of - United States |
Punishment - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-351) and index. |
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Introduction -- Foundations -- The racial origins of felon disenfranchisement -- The disenfranchised population -- The contemporary disenfranchisement regime -- Political attitudes, voting, and criminal behavior -- Disenfranchisement and civic reintegration -- The impact of disenfranchisement on political participation -- A threat to democracy? -- Public opinion and felon disenfranchisement -- Unlocking the vote. |
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5.4 million Americans-1 in every 40 voting age adults--are denied the right to participate in democratic elections because of a past or current felony conviction. In several American states, 1 in 4 black men cannot vote due to a felony conviction. In a country that prides itself on universal suffrage, how did the United States come to deny a voice to such a large percentage of its citizenry? What are the consequences of large-scale disenfranchisement--both for election outcomes, and for public policy more generally? ""Locked Out"" exposes one of the most important, yet little known, threats to |
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UNINA9910786430603321 |
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Autore |
Betsworth Sharon |
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The reign of God is such as these : a socio-literary analysis of daughters in the Gospel of Mark / / Sharon Betsworth |
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London ; ; New York, New York : , : T & T Clark, , 2010 |
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©2010 |
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1 online resource (177 p.) |
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Library of New Testament Studies ; ; 422 |
T & T Clark Library of Biblical Studies |
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Daughters - Biblical teaching |
Women in the Bible |
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"A Continuum imprint"--T.p. verso. |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; I: Previous Scholarship on Daughters in the Gospel of Mark; II: Background of the Gospel of Mark; III: Determining the Function of Daughters in the Gospel of Mark; 2 Social-Historical Status of and Attitudes about Daughters; I: Greco-Roman Family and Religion; II: The Life of Girls in the Greco-Roman World; III: Attitudes toward Daughters in the Greco-Roman Context; IV: Conclusion; 3 Literary Representations of Daughters; I: The Homeric: Hymn to Demeter; II: Jewish Novels; III: The Plays of Menander; IV: Greek Novels |
V: Conclusion4 The Daughters in the Gospel of Mark; I: The Placement of the Daughter Cycle in the Narrative Context of Mark's Gospel; II: Mark 5.21-43: An Older Daughter and a Younger Daughter; III: Mark 6.14-29: The Daughter of Herodias; IV: Mark 7. 24-30: The Daughter of the Syro-Phoenician Woman; V: Daughters and the Reign of God; VI: Jesus as the Son of God; VII: Conclusion; 5 Summary and Conclusions; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Modern Authors; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W |
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This is a new analysis of the ''daughters'' in the Gospel of Mark. Betsworth analyzes the ''daughters'' in the Gospel of Mark : the woman from the crowd - whom Jesus calls daughter, Jairus'' daughter (5:21- |
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43), Herodias'' daughter (6:14-29), and the daughter of the Syro-Phoenician woman (7:24-30). To demonstrate how the Gospel''s first century audience may have heard these stories, Betsworth begins by examining ''daughters'' in their ancient Mediterranean context. Betsworth then considers representations of daughters in select texts from the Septuagint and Greco-Roman literature - from the s |
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