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American Prisons : Their Past, Present and Future by Musick, David, author; Gunsaulus-Musick, Kristine, 1950- author is a law available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>Imprisonment has become big business in the United States. Using a "history of ideas" approach, this book examines the cultural underpinnings of prisons in the United States and explores how shared ideas about imprisonment evolve into a complex, loosely connected nationwide system of prisons that keeps enough persons to populate a small nation behind bars, razor wire and electrified fences.</p> <p>Tracing both the history of the prison and the very idea of imprisonment in the United States, t
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- Author
- Musick, David, author; Gunsaulus-Musick, Kristine, 1950- author
- Publisher
- Routledge; Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781138805781
- Category
- law
- Subjects
- Social Science, Law, Sentencing
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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