1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990005789470403321

Autore

Jakob, Ludwig Heinrich von <1759-1827>

Titolo

Beweis für die Unsterblichkeit der Seele aus dem Begriffe der Pflicht : eine Preisschrift / von Ludwig Heinrich Jakob

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bruxelles : Culture et Civilisation, 1969

Descrizione fisica

240 p. ; 19 cm

Collana

Aetas kantiana ; 129

Disciplina

129

Locazione

FLFBC

Collocazione

P.1 FG 1761

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNIBAS000038130

Autore

Walzer, Pierre-Olivier

Titolo

Mallarmé / Pierre-Olivier Walzer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris : Seghers, 1963

ISBN

2-232-10871-6

Descrizione fisica

256 p., [3] carte di tav. : ill. ; 16 cm.

Disciplina

841.8

Soggetti

Mallarmé, Stéphane

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453922803321

Autore

Loury Glenn C

Titolo

Race, incarceration, and American values / / Glenn C. Loury

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2008

ISBN

0-262-27857-X

1-4356-6288-1

9780262278577

9781435662889

9780262260947

0262260948

0262123118

9780262123112

Descrizione fisica

86 pages ;

Collana

Boston review book

Disciplina

365/.608996073

Soggetti

Crime and race - United States

Criminal justice, Administration of - United States

Imprisonment - United States

Justice, Administration of - United States

Prisoners - United States

Prisons and race relations - United States

Race discrimination - United States

Electronic books.

United States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Based on the 2007 Tanner lectures on human values at Stanford."

Sommario/riassunto

Why stigmatizing and confining a large segment of our population should be unacceptable to all Americans. The United States, home to five percent of the world's population, now houses twenty-five percent of the world's prison inmates. Our incarceration rate--at 714 per 100,000 residents and rising--is almost forty percent greater than our nearest competitors (the Bahamas, Belarus, and Russia). More



pointedly, it is 6.2 times the Canadian rate and 12.3 times the rate in Japan. Economist Glenn Loury argues that this extraordinary mass incarceration is not a response to rising crime rates or a proud success of social policy. Instead, it is the product of a generation-old collective decision to become a more punitive society. He connects this policy to our history of racial oppression, showing that the punitive turn in American politics and culture emerged in the post-civil rights years and has today become the main vehicle for the reproduction of racial hierarchies. Whatever the explanation, Loury argues, the uncontroversial fact is that changes in our criminal justice system since the 1970's have created a nether class of Americans--vastly disproportionately black and brown--with severely restricted rights and life chances. Moreover, conservatives and liberals agree that the growth in our prison population has long passed the point of diminishing returns. Stigmatizing and confining of a large segment of our population should be unacceptable to Americans. Loury's call to action makes all of us now responsible for ensuring that the policy changes.