What's prison for?, punishment and rehabilitation in the age of mass incarceration, Bill Keller
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What's prison for?, punishment and rehabilitation in the age of mass incarceration, Bill Keller
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Includes bibliographical references
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non fiction
Main title
What's prison for?
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bibliography
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1299444997
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Bill Keller
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punishment and rehabilitation in the age of mass incarceration
Summary
"What purpose is incarceration supposed to serve, and how successfully does it serve that purpose? What's Prison For? traces the tension between our national punitive streak and our faith in rehabilitation, between viewing prisoners as menacing Others to be incapacitated and shamed and, alternatively, viewing them as future neighbors"--, Provided by publisher
Table of contents
Introduction -- "Restoring our fellow creatures to virtue and happiness" -- The science of crime and punishment -- The upside-down kingdom -- The normality principle -- Enough Norwegians? -- What's race got to do with it? -- College behind bars -- The afterlife -- A world apart -- The other prisoners -- Epilogue: Sing Sing
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