Punishment, Politics and Culture, Volume 30 (Studies in Law, Politics, and Society)
Contributors: Austin Sarat (Editor); Patricia Ewick (Editor)
Publisher: JAI Press
Published: December 9, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780762310722
Subjects: Penology & punishment; Sociology; Social Science; Public Affairs & Administration; Sociology - General; Political Science : Public Affairs & Administration; Social Science / Sociology / General; Ethnic Studies - General
First sentence: The accounts of moral reform that nineteenth-century convicts offered the officials in charge were frequently characterized by such uniformity that it caused Dickens to mistrust their sincerity and to brand them scornfully as "pattern penitence."