The Punitive Turn in American Life How the United States Learned to Fight Crime Like a War |
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| Author:
| Sherry, Michael S. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4696-6070-7 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2020 |
| Publisher: | University of North Carolina Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $35.00 |
Book Description:
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Offers a political and cultural history of the ways in which punishment and surveillance have moved to the centre of American life and become imbued with militarized language and policies, chronicling the United States' slide into becoming a meaner, punishment-obsessed nation.
Offers a political and cultural history of the ways in which punishment and surveillance have moved to the centre of American life and become imbued with militarized language and policies, chronicling the United States' slide into becoming a meaner, punishment-obsessed nation.