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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
      Published 12 October 1993
      ISBN-13 9780226758565
      978-0226758565
      ISBN-10 0226758567
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      Penology and punishment

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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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