"Putting Cruelty First": Liberal Penal Reform and the Rise of the Carceral State

Why are so many people in prison today? How do we make sense, more generally, of the fact that all the world's liberal democracies rely on incarceration as an essential tool of punishment? Specifically, why is it that the discourses and practices surrounding punishment in today's liberal d...

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1. VerfasserIn: Vick, Jason (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 2015
In: Social justice
Jahr: 2015, Band: 42, Heft: 1, Seiten: 35-52
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