[PDF.05xx] Cruel and Unusual: The Culture of Punishment in America

Cruel and Unusual: The Culture of Punishment in America

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 | #2962206 in Books |  2009-03-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.25 x.94 x6.12l,1.36 | File type: PDF | 336 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Why the USA has the world’s highest incarceration rate|By Paul Froehlich|The United States did not always lead the world in the proportion of population incarcerated. During the 1930s, the US had imprisonment rates similar to or lower than Europe’s. Since 1973, however, America’s imprisonment rate increased by more than five times. The American imprisonment|From Publishers Weekly|The Abu Ghraib prison abuses, widely condemned as violations of American ideals, were actually as American as apple pie, according to this scattershot study. Cusac, a journalist and communications professor , surveys the American enthusias

The statistics are startling. Since 1973, America’s imprisonment rate has multiplied over five times to become the highest in the world. More than two million inmates reside in state and federal prisons. What does this say about our attitudes toward criminals and punishment? What does it say about us?

This book explores the cultural evolution of punishment practices in the United States. Anne-Marie Cusac first looks at punishment in the nation’s ear...

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