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A Sin Against the Future examines how countries and cultures across the world deal with their violent predators, social deviants and misfits, exposing the waste and horror of the growing incarceration business. Stern shows us the development of imprisonment and its use in different regions of the world, and the dire consequences for society of the preference for imprisonment over more remedial alternatives.
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Imprisonment is the almost unquestioned response to crime the world over, even though as a systematic form of punishment its history goes back over 150 years or so. Although there may be superficial differences between different countries' systems, the experience of imprisonment is universal: prisoners engender violence within themselves, prisoners revolt violently against the prison system, young prisoners who are abused are "educated" into the values of the prison world, women's problems outside prison are exacerbated by the prison environment. Unfortunately, this suffering does nothing to reduce crime. The book examines the prison experience throughout the world, considers international efforts to regulate the system, and asks whether a better answer should be found.
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VIVIEN STERN is Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Prison Studies at King's College, London. She is also Secretary-General of Penal Reform International, a non-governmental organization she was involved in establishing in 1989 to promote penal reform throughout the world. Also available in Penguin: Bricks of Shame: Britain's Prisons (1993).
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0140233091
- ISBN 13 9780140233094
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages432
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