Inferno: an anatomy of American punishment

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press (2014)
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Punishment misunderstood -- The ratchet effect in theory -- The mixed signs in suffering -- The legal punishers -- The legally punished -- The punitive impulse in American society -- The law against itself -- Coda : the psychology of punishment.

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K5103.F47 2014

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