Inferno : an anatomy of American punishment /
Robert Ferguson diagnoses all parts of a massive, out-of-control punishment regime. Turning the spotlight on the plight of prisoners, he asks the American people, Do we want our prisons to be this way? Acknowledging the suffering of prisoners and understanding what punishers do when they punish are...
| Основен автор: | Ferguson, Robert A., 1942- (Author) |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2014.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=663471 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Inferno |
Съдържание:
- Introduction : the intractable problem
- Punishment misunderstood
- The ratchet effect in theory
- The mixed signs in suffering
- The legal punishers
- The legally punished
- The punitive impulse in American society
- The law against itself
- Coda : the psychology of punishment.