In Defense of Flogging - Paperback
by Peter Moskos
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9780465032419ISBN-10:465032419UPC:9780465032419Book Category:Social Science, LawBook Subcategory:Penology, Criminology, Criminal LawBook Topic:SentencingSize:7.20 x 4.80 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SC6F7ZH50Q
In Defense of Flogging
Prisons impose tremendous costs, yet they're easily ignored. Criminals -- even low-level nonviolent offenders -- enter our dysfunctional criminal justice system and disappear into a morass that's safely hidden from public view. Our "tough on crime" political rhetoric offers us no way out, and prison reformers are too quickly dismissed as soft on criminals. Meanwhile, the taxpayer picks up the...
Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9780465032419ISBN-10:465032419UPC:9780465032419Book Category:Social Science, LawBook Subcategory:Penology, Criminology, Criminal LawBook Topic:SentencingSize:7.20 x 4.80 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SC6F7ZH50Q
Peter Moskos is assistant professor of Law, Police Science, and Criminal Justice Administration at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the City University of New York's Doctoral Program in Sociology, and is a former Baltimore City police officer. Author of Cop in the Hood, which won the 2008 PROSE Award for best Sociology Book, he lives in Queens, New York.
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