Lifers

Seeking Redemption in Prison

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Autor:

John Irwin

Lifers

Beschreibung:

John Irwin writes about prisons from an unusual academic perspective. Before receiving a Ph.D. in sociology, he served five years in a California state penitentiary for armed robbery. This is his sixth book on imprisonment a " an ethnography of prisoners who have served more than twenty years in a California correctional institution. The purpose of the book is to take issue with the conventional wisdom on homicide, societya (TM)s purposes of imprisonment, and offendersa (TM) reformability. Through the lifersa (TM) stories, he reveals what happens to prisoners serving very long sentences in correctional facilities and what this should tell us about effective sentencing policy.

Kategorie:

Fremdsprachige Bücher

Verlag:

Taylor and Francis

Sprache:

Englisch

Anzahl Seiten:

152

Erscheinungstag:

2009-06-23

EAN:

9780415801980

ISBN:

978-0-415-80198-0