Poor Discipline

by Jonathan Simon

Book Overview

This powerful book reveals how modern strategies of punishment--and, by all accounts, their failure--relate to political and economic transformations in society at large. Jonathan Simon uses the practice of parole in California as a window to the changing historical understanding of what a corrections system does and how it works. Because California is representative of policies and practices on a national level, Simon explicitly presents his findings...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226758575
• ISBN13: 9780226758572
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"