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Reveals how modern strategies of punishment - and their failure - relate to political and economic transformations in society at large. The author uses the practice of parole in California as a window to the changing historical understanding of what a corrections system does and how it works.

Poor Discipline Studies in Crime and Justice

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 12/10/1993 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780226758565, 978-0226758565
      ISBN10: 0226758567
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      Book Synopsis
      Reveals how modern strategies of punishment - and their failure - relate to political and economic transformations in society at large. The author uses the practice of parole in California as a window to the changing historical understanding of what a corrections system does and how it works.

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