The Culture of Punishment: Prison, Society, and Spectacle (Alternative Criminology)

by Michelle Brown (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2009

  $105.44

  Shows that those of us most distanced from the practice of punishment tend to be particularly harsh in our judgments.

• New

  Paperback
  2009

  $35.88

  Takes readers on a tour of the sites where culture and punishment - meet television shows, movies, prison tourism, and post 9/11 new war prisons - demonstrating that because incarceration affects people along distinct race and class lines, it is only a privileged group of citizens who are removed from the experience of incarceration.