Imprisonment in America
Subtitle: Choosing the Future (Studies in Crime and Justice)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: February 15, 1983
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 153
ISBN-13: 9780226752808
Subjects: Prisons; Social history; Social Science; Sociology; Penology; Social Science / Penology; Imprisonment; United States
First sentence: When Alexis de Tocqueville came to the United States in 1831, his hidden agenda may have been to write Democracy in America, but his formal mission was to study the penitentiary system.