%0 Book %A Jarvis, Brian %I Pluto Press %D 2004 %C London u.a. %G English %@ 0745315380 %@ 0745315437 %T Cruel and unusual: punishment and US culture %U http://www.gbv.de/dms/spk/sbb/toc/372324878.pdf %U http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0904/2003023260-b.html %U http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0904/2003023260-d.html %X Introduction : birth of a prison nation -- The scarlet letter and the long forever of Puritan punishment -- Reading the Rosenbergs : the public burning and the Book of Daniel -- Punishment, resistance, and the African-American experience -- The whip, the noose, the cell, and their lover : Melville the masochist -- Inside the American prison film -- Conclusion : waves of the future, echoes of the past.