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Metamorphosis : How to Transform Punishment in America /
In the past few years, the need for prison reform in America has reached the level of a consensus. We agree that many prison terms are too long, especially for nonviolent drug offenders; that long-term isolation is a bad idea; and that basic psychiatric and medical care in prisons is woefully inadeq...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : The need for new answers
- The linguistic tangle in treatment of the incarcerated
- Do Americans like to punish?
- Accounting for unaccountability
- Rights talk and the enabling of wrongs
- Sentencing the disappearing convict
- The technology of confinement
- Prison talk
- Eduction in prison reform
- What is punishment for?
- The architectonics of reform
- Coda : Being in prison.