Inferno An Anatomy of American Punishment

Name: Inferno An Anatomy of American Punishment
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ISBN: 9780674728684

ISBN-10: 0674728688

ISBN-13: 9780674728684

Edition: 2014

Authors: Robert A. Ferguson

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America's criminal justice system is broken. The United States punishes at a higher per capita rate than any other country in the world. In the last twenty years, incarceration rates have risen 500 percent. Sentences are harsh, prisons are overcrowded, life inside is dangerous, and rehabilitation programs are ineffective. Police and prosecutors operate in the dark shadows of the legal process--sometimes resigning themselves to the status quo, sometimes turning a profit from it. The courts define punishment as "time served," but that hardly begins to explain the suffering of prisoners.Looking not only to court records but to works of philosophy, history, and literature for illumination,…

Book details

List price: $32.50
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/3/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Robert A. Ferguson is George Edward Woodberry Professor in Law, Literature, and Criticism at Columbia University.