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Incarceration Issues: The History of Incarceration
Author: Roger Smith
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| Retail Price: | $39.95 |
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ISBN: 9781590849859
Format: Hardback
Published: July 2007
Published By: Mason Crest Publishing
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Published: July 2007
Published By: Mason Crest Publishing
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Product Description
This book covers the history of punishment and incarceration from the Code of Hammurabi in ancient Babylon, through the dungeons of medieval Europe to the birth of modern prisons more than a century ago, and finally arrives at today's massive penal systems. Spanning centuries and continents, the book explains how ideas that began centuries ago contributee to our modern assumptions and practices.