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Where the Sun Rises Square : Mass Incarceration and the Binds of Reform in Brazil.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thompson, David C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criminals--Rehabilitation--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro.
- Criminals.
- Resocialization--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro.
- Resocialization.
- Prisoners--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro--Social conditions.
- Prisoners.
- Prisons--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro.
- Prisons.
- Mass incarceration--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro.
- Mass incarceration.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (246 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- Brazil's prison population, estimated at 90,000 in 1990, has exploded to over 650,000, the third highest in the world behind the US and China.Systematically targeting poor, Black communities, Brazil's prisons have become infamous for their overcrowding and mismanagement.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Half-title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Prison is Just a Question of Time
- One. The Promise of Paper
- Two. Prison Psychology's Praxis
- Three. Faith and the Weight of the World
- Four. If I Were His Mother
- Five. Evasion
- Epilogue. Resocialize to Conquer the Future
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5036-4457-X
- 9781503644571
- OCLC:
- 1543212424
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