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Inferno : an anatomy of American punishment / Robert A. Ferguson.
LIBRA K5103 .F47 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ferguson, Robert A., 1942-2017, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Punishment--Philosophy.
- Punishment.
- Punishment--United States.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 337 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- 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 the first steps toward a better, more just system.
- Contents:
- 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
- The psychology of punishment.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-324) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674728684
- 0674728688
- OCLC:
- 857664292
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