Romantic Outlaws, Beloved Prisons

Romantic Outlaws, Beloved Prisons
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Publisher : NYU Press
Total Pages : 285
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ISBN-10 : 9780814718810
ISBN-13 : 0814718817
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Book Synopsis Romantic Outlaws, Beloved Prisons by : Martha Grace Duncan

Download or read book Romantic Outlaws, Beloved Prisons written by Martha Grace Duncan and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1999-09 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerging from her fascination with anarchists while studying political science at Columbia, Duncan (law, Emory U.) explores the paradoxes of crime, such as law-abiding citizens who like to commit violent criminal deeds, convicts who find beauty in their prison yards, and wardens who lose their jobs because they are actually succeeding at rehabilitating their charges. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


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