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Search - Conscience and Convenience: The Asylum and Its Alternatives in Progressive America
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Conscience and Convenience The Asylum and Its Alternatives in Progressive America Author: In this updated new edition, Rothman chronicles and examines incarceration of the criminal, the deviant, and the dependent in U.S. society, with a focus on how and why these methods have persisted and expanded for over a century and a half, despite longstanding evidence of their failures and abuses. A new epilogue, "The Crime of Punishment," wri... more »
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Genres:
- Politics & Social Sciences >> Crime & Criminals? >> Criminology
- Politics & Social Sciences >> Crime & Criminals? >> Penology
- Nonfiction >> Social Sciences >> Sociology >> General