Inferno Author: Robert A. Ferguson | Language: English | ISBN:
B00I2WNZWS | Format: PDF
Inferno Description
Robert Ferguson diagnoses all parts of a massive, out-of-control punishment regime. Turning the spotlight on the plight of prisoners, he asks the American people, Do we want our prisons to be this way? Acknowledging the suffering of prisoners and understanding what punishers do when they punish are the first steps toward a better, more just system.
- File Size: 1007 KB
- Print Length: 352 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0674728688
- Publisher: Harvard University Press (March 3, 2014)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00I2WNZWS
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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This is by far the best book to date on the widely acknowledged scandal of our criminal justice system. Its wide historical scope, ranging from antiquity through the Enlightenment down to contemporary case law, goes to the roots of our misguided ideas about punishment. In clear and persuasive prose, it denounces the absurdities, wastefulness, and cruelties of what is often, and rightly, described as our Prison Industrial Complex. It cuts to the heart of the delusions and denials that sustain it. Obligatory reading, then, for magistrates, attorneys, and ordinary tax-paying citizens, who continue to fund institutional practices which demonstrably don't do society any good at all. In fact, it does real harm to society at large, for the book shows how the system's myriad brutalities produce criminals
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