Bill Keller

Broschiertes Buch

What's Prison For?

Punishment and Rehabilitation in the Age of Mass Incarceration

Beschreibung

"What purpose is incarceration supposed to serve, and how successfully does it serve that purpose? What's Prison For? traces the tension between our national punitive streak and our faith in rehabilitation, between viewing prisoners as menacing Others to be incapacitated and shamed and, alternatively, viewing them as future neighbors"--

Autor

Bill Keller is founding editor-in-chief of the Marshall Project, an independent nonprofit news organization focused on crime and punishment in the U.S. He previously spent 30 years at the New York Times as a correspondent, editor, and op-ed columnist. As a foreign correspondent, he reported on the collapse of the Soviet Union, winning a Pulitzer Prize in 1989. Following Moscow, he became chief of the Times bureau in Johannesburg, covering the end of white rule in South Africa. During his eight years as executive editor, from 2003 to 2011, the Times won 18 Pulitzer Prizes. He lives in Southampton, New York.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia Global Reports
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 178mm x 127mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 178g
• ISBN-13: 9781735913742
• ISBN-10: 173591374X
• Artikelnr.: 63470009