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Cruel and unusual : punishment and US culture
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- Creator
- Brian Jarvis
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2004
- Physical Details
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- viii, 287 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 1849645027, 9781435660809, 9781849645027, 1281725080, 9786611725082, 9780745315386, 0745315437, 0745315380, 1435660803, 9780745315430
- OCLC
- ocn244352526, ocm53287805
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-279) and index.
- The birth of a prison nation -- The scarlet letter and the long forever of Puritan punishment -- Reading the Rosenbergs : The public burning and the Book of Daniel -- Punishment, resistance, and the African-American experience -- The whip, the noose, the cell, and their lover : Melville and masochism -- Inside the American prison film -- Image burn : a Minority report on the future of US punishment