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  1. Cruel and unusual
    punishment and US culture
    Author: Jarvis, Brian
    Published: 2004
    Publisher:  Pluto Press, London

    Explores who -- and why -- American society punishes, using examples from literature and film 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... more

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    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt / Zentrale
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    Explores who -- and why -- American society punishes, using examples from literature and film 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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    Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0745315437; 0745315380; 1849645027; 1435660803; 9780745315430; 9780745315386; 9781849645027; 9781435660809
    Subjects: Punishment in literature; Punishment; SOCIAL SCIENCE - Penology; Punishment in literature; Punishment; Straffen; Letterkunde; Amerikaans; Culturele aspecten; History
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 287 pages)
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-279) and index