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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ferguson, Robert A., 1942-2017 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Imprisonment > United States.
Emprisonnement > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Imprisonment.
Criminals > Rehabilitation.
Prisons > Government policy.
Social services & welfare, criminology.
True Crime.
United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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