Impermissible Punishments: How Prison Became a Problem for Democracy - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226754741ISBN-10:022675474XUPC:9780226754741Book Category:Social Science, LawBook Subcategory:Penology, Legal History, Civil RightsWeight:1.0009Product ID:SC9R46C3P5
An original transatlantic history of the invention of the corrections profession and of ensuing debates about punishment's purposes and prisoners' rights.
Impermissible Punishments explores the history of punishment inside prisons and how governments grappled with obligations to justify the punishments they impose. Legal scholar Judith Resnik charts the creation of the corrections profession and...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226754741ISBN-10:022675474XUPC:9780226754741Book Category:Social Science, LawBook Subcategory:Penology, Legal History, Civil RightsWeight:1.0009Product ID:SC9R46C3P5
Judith Resnik is the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She has authored many works, including Representing Justice: Invention, Controversy and Rights in City-States and Democratic Courtrooms.
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