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Author Abramsky, Sasha.

Title American furies : crime, punishment, and vengeance in the age of mass imprisonment / Sasha Abramsky
Published Boston : Beacon Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 213 pages)
Contents Introduction : From out of Tartarus -- pt. 1. A mindset molded -- ch. 1. The holy experiment -- ch. 2. A rising tide of violence -- ch. 3. Using a sledgehammer to kill a gnat -- ch. 4. Victims, fundamentalists, and rant radio hacks -- ch. 5. Reductio ad absurdum -- ch. 6. Open for business -- ch .7. Till the end of time -- ch. 8. Storehouses of the living dead -- ch. 9. Adult time -- Conclusion : Leviathan calling -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-206) and index
Notes English
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Subject Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.
Punishment -- United States
Imprisonment -- United States
Sentences (Criminal procedure) -- United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
Criminal justice, Administration of
Imprisonment
Punishment
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2006031105
ISBN 9780807042359
0807042358
9780807099179
0807099171