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" Cruel and unusual : "
Brian Jarvis.
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BL
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609189
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Jarvis, Brian.
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Cruel and unusual : : punishment and US culture /\ Brian Jarvis.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;Sterling, Va. :: Pluto Press,, 2004.
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1 online resource (viii, 287 pages)
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9781435660809
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: 1435660803
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: 9781849645027
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: 1849645027
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-279) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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Explores who -- and why -- American society punishes, using examples from literature and film.
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Punishment-- United States-- History.
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Punishment in literature.
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HV9466.J37 2004eb
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