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Conscience and Convenience: The Asylum and Its Alternatives in Progressive America (New Lines in Criminology)
Conscience and Convenience The Asylum and Its Alternatives in Progressive America - New Lines in Criminology
Author: David J. Rothman
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 »
ISBN-13: 9780202307145
ISBN-10: 020230714X
Publication Date: 8/1/2002
Pages: 482
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Publisher: Aldine
Book Type: Paperback
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