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Punishing the vulnerable : discrimination in American prisons / Jeremiah Wade-Olson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wade-Olson, Jeremiah, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criminals.
- Social conditions.
- United States.
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States.
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
- Imprisonment--United States.
- Imprisonment.
- Criminals--United States--Social conditions.
- Prisoners--United States--Social conditions.
- Prisoners.
- Alternatives to imprisonment--United States.
- Alternatives to imprisonment.
- Criminals--Social conditions.
- Prisoners--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xxvii, 167 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, [2019]
- Contents:
- Introduction: America's prisons: a portrait of the vulnerable
- "Crime" and moral panics
- Discretion and punishment
- Punishing the poor
- Punishing the sick
- Punishing race
- Punishing immigrants
- Punishing drug use
- Punishing families
- Instead of prisons.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Wade-Olson, Jeremiah, author. Punishing the vulnerable
- ISBN:
- 9781440858086
- 144085808X
- OCLC:
- 1081336683
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