Cusac Anne-Marie:
Cruel And Unusual

The Culture Of Punishment In America

Yale University Press (United Kingdom), 2009
Hardback, 320 pages
Size: 229x152 mm
ISBN: 9780300111743
ISBN-10: 0300111746

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Cruel And Unusual

Explores the cultural evolution of punishment practices in the United States. This book looks at punishment in the nation's early days, when Americans repudiated Old World cruelty toward criminals and emphasized rehabilitation over retribution.

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