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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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Ferguson, Robert A., 1942-2017 (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.