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Cruel and unusual : punishment and US culture /
Explores who -- and why -- American society punishes, using examples from literature and film.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; Sterling, Va. :
Pluto Press,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The birth of a prison nation
- The scarlet letter and the long forever of Puritan punishment
- Reading the Rosenbergs : The public burning and the Book of Daniel
- Punishment, resistance, and the African-American experience
- The whip, the noose, the cell, and their lover : Melville and masochism
- Inside the American prison film
- Image burn : a Minority report on the future of US punishment.