A country called prison : mass incarceration and the making of a new nation / / Mary D. Looman, John D. Carl
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Looman Mary D.
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| Titolo: |
A country called prison : mass incarceration and the making of a new nation / / Mary D. Looman, John D. Carl
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015 |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (265 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 365/.973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Imprisonment - United States - History |
| Prisons - United States - History | |
| Prisoners - United States - History | |
| Classificazione: | SOC025000 |
| Persona (resp. second.): | CarlJohn D. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The United States is the world leader in incarcerating citizens. 707 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A country called prison |
| ISBN: | 0-19-021105-9 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910797286303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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