Penal Culture and Hyperincarceration: The Revival of the Prison 9781317082651, 1317082656

The Persistent Prison?: Rethinking Decarceration and Penal Reform 9781442682023

By situating her analysis in the context of theoretical and political arguments about the possibility of decarceration,

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The Culture of Punishment: Prison, Society, and Spectacle 9780814739044

America is the most punitive nation in the world, incarcerating more than 2.3 million people—or one in 136 of its reside

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The Culture of Punishment: Prison, Society and Spectacle 9780814739044

America is the most punitive nation in the world, incarcerating more than 2.3 million people—or one in 136 of its reside

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The Prison at Philadelphia Cherry Hill: The Separate System of Penal Discipline: 1829–1913 9780231896528

Looks at the prison in Philadelphia at Cherry Hill which was considered a symbol of American influence on European penol

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Waiting At The Prison Gate: Women, Identity and the Russian Penal System 9781350989689, 9781786730336

The Russian Federation has one of the largest prison populations in the world. Women in particular are profoundly affect

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Enforcing the Convict Code: Violence and Prison Culture 9781588269249

Is it possible that a prison's gangs, racial tensions, and underground economy may actually serve to make it a less

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Warfare in the American Homeland: Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy 9780822389743

A collection of writings by prisoners and scholars that documents the extension of the violence and the repression of th

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The Deviant Prison: Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary and the Origins of America's Modern Penal System, 1829–1913 1108484948, 9781108484947

Early nineteenth-century American prisons followed one of two dominant models: the Auburn system, in which prisoners per

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Revival of the Runes 9781644111796

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The Prison and the American Imagination 9780300156300

How did a nation so famously associated with freedom become internationally identified with imprisonment? After the scan

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