Michael Welch

Corrections (eBook, PDF)

A Critical Approach

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book confronts mass imprisonment in the United States, a nation boasting the highest incarceration rate in the world. By attending closely to historical and theoretical development, the book identifies and examines the key social forces shaping penal practice in the US - politics, economics, morality, and technology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 768
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136842740
• Artikelnr.: 39704340

Autorenporträt

Michael Welch is a Professor in the Criminal Justice program at Rutgers University, US. His research interests include punishment, human rights, and social control, and his articles have appeared in journals such as Punishment and Society, Social Justice and Critical Criminology. He has also authored numerous books, including Crimes of Power & States of Impunity: The U.S. Response to Terror (Rutgers University Press, 2009), Ironies of Imprisonment (Sage, 2005), and Punishment in America (Sage, 1999).