Poor Discipline

Poor Discipline
ISBN-10
0226758575
ISBN-13
9780226758572
Category
Social Science
Pages
286
Language
English
Published
1993
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Author
Jonathan Simon

Description

Reveals how modern strategies of punishment - and their failure - relate to political and economic transformations in society at large. The author uses the practice of parole in California as a window to the changing historical understanding of what a corrections system does and how it works.

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