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Author: Dr. Anne-Marie Cusac
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0300111746

Cruel and Unusual: The Culture of Punishment in America

The statistics are startling. Download Cruel and Unusual: The Culture of Punishment in America from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. 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 early days, when Americans repudiated Old World cruelty toward criminals and emphasized rehabilitation over retribution. This attitude persisted for some 200 years, but in recent decades we have abandoned it, Cusac shows. She discusses the dramatic rise in the use of torture and restraint, corporal Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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Cruel and Unusual education books for free. 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 early days, when Americans repudiated Old World cruelty toward criminals and emphasized rehabilitation over retribution She discusses the dramatic rise in the use of torture and restraint, corporal

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