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Doing Indefinite Time
This open access book provides insights into the everyday lives of long-term prisoners in Switzerland who are labelled as ‘dangerous’ and are preventatively held in indefinite, probably lifelong, incarceration. It explores prisoners’ manifold ways of inhabiting the prison which can be used to challenge well established notions about the experience of imprisonment, such as ‘adaptation’…
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- 1
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- 978-3-031-12590-4
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- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
- Call Number
- XIII, 353
Command and persuade :crime, law, and the state across history
"This history of crime and punishment spans 3000 years and multiple continents to reveal the larger patterns in how the state has maintained order and enforced law over the centuries"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262361507
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- 1 online resource
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Corporal Punishment in U.S. Public Schools Legal Precedents, Current Practice…
This Brief reviews the past, present, and future use of school corporal punishment in the United States, a practice that remains legal in 19 states as it is constitutionally permitted according to the U.S. Supreme Court. As a result of school corporal punishment, nearly 200,000 children are paddled in schools each year. Most Americans are unaware of this fact or the physical injuries sustained …
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- 9783319148182
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- Call Number
- 364.67
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