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Prison and social death /

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The United States imprisons more of its citizens than any other nation in the world. To be sentenced to prison is to face systematic violence, humiliation, and, perhaps worst of all, separation from family and community. It is, to borrow Orlando Patterson's term, to suffer "social death.&q...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Price, Joshua M. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2015]
Series:Critical issues in crime and society.
Subjects:
Imprisonment > United States.
Prisoners > United States > Social conditions.
Prisoners > Deinstitutionalization > United States.
Social isolation > United States.
Marginality, Social > United States.
Imprisonment.
Marginality, Social.
Prisoners > Deinstitutionalization.
Prisoners > Social conditions.
Social isolation.
United States.

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