What's prison for? : punishment and rehabilitation in the age of mass incarceration / Bill Keller.

By:

Keller, Bill

Publisher: New York, NY : Columbia Global Reports, [2022]Description: 159 pages : map ; 19 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

173591374X
9781735913742

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

365 23/eng/20220513

LOC classification:

HV8665 .K45 2022

Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	NMC Library	Stacks	HV8665 .K45 2022 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		33039001525731

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"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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