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Conscience and convenience: The asylum and its alternatives in progressive America
Conscience and convenience The asylum and its alternatives in progressive America
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: 9780316757744
ISBN-10: 0316757748
Pages: 464
Edition: 1st
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Publisher: Little, Brown
Book Type: Paperback
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