What's Prison For?
Author: Keller, Bill
ISBN: 9781735913742
RM123.76
Publisher,Columbia Global Reports
Publication Date,
Format, Paperback
Weight,
No. of Pages, 159
What purpose is incarceration supposed to serve, and how successfully does it serve that purpose? What's Prison For? traces the tension between our national punitive streak and our faith in rehabilitation, between viewing prisoners as menacing Others tobe incapacitated and shamed and, alternatively, viewing them as future neighbors--
