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Stern, Vivien

 
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Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

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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