In Defense of Flogging - Paperback
by Peter Moskos
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Languages: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:0.35Product ID:SC6F7ZH50Q
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 extraordinary and unnecessary bill. In Defense of Flogging presents a solution both radical and simple: give criminals a choice between incarceration and the lash. Flogging is punishment: quick, cheap, and honest. Noted criminologist Peter Moskos, in irrefutable style, shows the logic of the new system while highlighting flaws in the status quo. Flogging may be cruel, but In Defense of Flogging shows us that compared to our broken prison system, it is the lesser of two evils.
Languages: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:0.35Product 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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