عنوان

Inferno

شابک

9780674369931

شماره

b401562

عنوان اصلي

Inferno

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

An Anatomy of American Punishment /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Robert A. Ferguson.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

London, England :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Harvard University Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2014.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

1 online resource (352 p.)

متن يادداشت

Main Description:America\U+2019\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, Robert Ferguson, a distinguished law professor, diagnoses all parts of a now massive, out-of-control punishment regime. He reveals the veiled pleasure behind the impulse to punish (which confuses our thinking about the purpose of punishment), explains why over time all punishment regimes impose greater levels of punishment than originally intended, and traces a disturbing gap between our ability to quantify pain and the precision with which penalties are handed down. Ferguson turns the spotlight from the debate over legal issues to the real plight of prisoners, addressing not law professionals but the American people. Do we want our prisons to be this way? Or are we unaware, or confused, or indifferent, or misinformed about what is happening? Acknowledging the suffering of prisoners and understanding what punishers do when they punish are the first steps toward a better, more just system.

شماره استاندارد بين المللي کتاب و موسيقي

9780674369931

موضوع مستند نشده

Punishment-- Philosophy.

موضوع مستند نشده

Punishment-- United States.

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Ferguson, Robert A.

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

Harvard University., Press.

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

Walter de Gruyter & Co.

تاريخ عمليات

20140908150828.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y