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American furies crime, punishment, and vengeance in the age of mass imprisonment

How vengeance has replaced rehabilitation in our prisons--and its terrible costs. In this dramatic expose of U.S. penitentiaries and the communities around them, Sasha Abramsky finds that prisons have dumped their age-old goal of rehabilitation, often for political reasons. The new "ideal,"...

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Main Author: Abramsky, Sasha (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston Beacon Press 2007
Subjects:
Criminal justice, administration of > United States.
Punishment > United States.
Imprisonment > United States.
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