Cruel and Unusual: Punishment and US Culture

by Brian Jarvis

From the excesses of Puritan patriarchs to the barbarism of slavery and on into the prison-industrial complex, punishment in the US has a long and gruesome history. In the post-Vietnam era, the prison population has increased tenfold and the death penalty has enjoyed a renaissance. Cruel and Unusual offers an exploration of the history of punishment as mediated in American culture. Grounding his analysis in Marxist theory, psychoanalysis and Foucault's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745315380
• ISBN13: 9780745315386
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.7"