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What is Slavery and the Penal System about?
The author traces the direct and indirect influences of the social institution of chattel slavery on the evolution of penal systems and practices in Europe and the United States. He reveals the darkest and most brutal aspects of penal history and the social forces that resisted or nullified the efforts of reformers who sought to bring about the humanization of punishment
- Author
- Sellin, Johan Thorsten, 1896-
- Publisher
- Elsevier; Elsevier Science Ltd
- Published
- 1976
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780444990273
- Subjects
- Social Science, History, Social_sciences
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