Unusually Cruel: Prisons, Punishment, and the Real American Exceptionalism

ISBN-13: 9780190659349 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 296 str.

Georget Marc Morje (Professor of Government and Law Howard

Opis

In Unusually Cruel, Mark Morje Howard shows how far outside the norm-and how different from systems in other advanced, industrial democracies-US prisons are.

Recenzje

Howard makes a convincing case that we have much to learn from other nations about our criminal justice system, and he provides a practical approach for recalibrating it to one that is both effective and fair.

O autorze

Marc Morjé Howard is Professor of Government and Law and Director of the Prison Reform Initiative at Georgetown University. He is also the author of The Politics of Citizenship in Europe.