Poor discipline
Auteur :
Simon, Jonathan
Éditeur :
The University of Chicago Press
ISBN :
9780226758565
Date de publication :
10 déc. 1993
Dimensions :
2,4 x 1,6 x 0,2 cm
Poids :
567 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Reveals how modern strategies of punishment - and their failure - relate to political and economic transformations in society at large. The author uses the practice of parole in California as a window to the changing historical understanding of what a corrections system does and how it works.