Rethinking imprisonment /

Lippke draws upon philosophical arguments, criminological evidence, and legal literature on prisoners' rights and sentencing to explore the restrictions and deprivations that can be legitimately imposed on serious offenders in the name of punishment.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lippke, Richard L., 1954-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Series:	Oxford monographs on criminal law and criminal justice.
Subjects:	Imprisonment. Criminal justice, Administration of. Emprisonnement. Justice pénale > Administration. imprisonment. Criminal justice, Administration of Imprisonment Straffen. Gevangenisstraf. Penologie. Freiheitsstrafe > Vergeltung > Normative Ethik. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Censuring equalization retributivism
The case for retributive sentencing
Imprisonable offenses
B-level analysis
Minimum and extreme conditions of confinement
Initial challenges to prisoners' rights
Work, welfare, and responsibility
In defense of more permeable prisons
Retained civil rights
Access to recreation and entertainment
Privatization, abolition, or reform.