What's prison for? : punishment and rehabilitation in the age of mass incarceration /
Keller, Bill
What's prison for? : punishment and rehabilitation in the age of mass incarceration / Bill Keller. - 159 pages : map ; 19 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
"What purpose is incarceration supposed to serve, and how successfully does it serve that purpose? What's Prison For? traces the tension between our national punitive streak and our faith in rehabilitation, between viewing prisoners as menacing Others to be incapacitated and shamed and, alternatively, viewing them as future neighbors"--
173591374X 9781735913742
2022014399
GBC2F4596 bnb
020730083 Uk
Criminals--Rehabilitation
Imprisonment
Prisons
HV8665 / .K45 2022
365
What's prison for? : punishment and rehabilitation in the age of mass incarceration / Bill Keller. - 159 pages : map ; 19 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
"What purpose is incarceration supposed to serve, and how successfully does it serve that purpose? What's Prison For? traces the tension between our national punitive streak and our faith in rehabilitation, between viewing prisoners as menacing Others to be incapacitated and shamed and, alternatively, viewing them as future neighbors"--
173591374X 9781735913742
2022014399
GBC2F4596 bnb
020730083 Uk
Criminals--Rehabilitation
Imprisonment
Prisons
HV8665 / .K45 2022
365