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The Birth of the Prison (Vintage)
By Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679752552
Release Date: 1995-04-25
List Price: USD 14.00
Paperback
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Book description:
In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.
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