Rethinking punishment : challenging conventions in research and policy /

Lucken, Karol,

Rethinking punishment : challenging conventions in research and policy / Karol M. Lucken. - viii, 165 pages ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Justifying punishment : a moral & economic defense of policy -- Defining punishment : the essential attributes of penal activity -- Measuring punishment : the scope & severity of penal activity -- Evaluating punishment : "what works" and the pursuit of effectiveness -- Prescribing punishment : alternative directions in research & policy -- .

9781138891197 (hardback) 9781138891203 (paperback)

2016030759


Punishment--History.--United States
Prisons--History.--United States

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