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UNINA990007541370403321 |
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Staub, Walther <1886- > |
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Asien / Walther Staub |
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Zurich : Orell Fussli Verlag, ©1955 |
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115 p., [12] c. di ill. ; 20 cm |
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Orell Fusslis geographisches Unterrichtswerk ; 4 |
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Monografia |
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UNINA9910817262803321 |
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Looman Mary D. |
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A country called prison : mass incarceration and the making of a new nation / / Mary D. Looman, John D. Carl |
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New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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1 online resource (265 p.) |
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Imprisonment - United States - History |
Prisons - United States - History |
Prisoners - United States - History |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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The United States is the world leader in incarcerating citizens. 707 |
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people out of every 100,000 are imprisoned. If those currently incarcerated in the US prison system were a country, it would be the 102nd most populated nation in the world. Aside from looking at the numbers, if we could look at prison from a new viewpoint, as its own country rather than an institution made up of walls and wires, policies and procedures, and legal statutes, what might we be able to learn? In A Country Called Prison, Mary Looman and John Carl propose a paradigm shift in the way that American society views mass |
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