The Politics of Injustice: Crime and Punishment in America by Beckett and Sasson offers a persuasive argument against get-tough-on-crime policies, and puts forth an analysis of mass incarceration that implicates conservative rhetoric, underlying racism, the war on drugs, and private interests in the dire situation we see today.Although making a clear thesis throughout, the problem of the crime issue is never oversimplified. The relationship between political rhetoric and strategy, mass media, and public opinion is particularly nuanced. In conclusion the authors recommend adopting alternative sentencing, ending the war on drugs, decriminalizing drugs, reinvesting in social programs, and instituting gun control.
This is an excellent book for undergraduates.
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Diana, I enjoy reading your comments on films, but I have a question about your father: Apart from his work for "Mad", he must have done some paintings for himself, right? What are these like? I'm curious.
Bhob, He did do a lot of paintings, mostly oil paintings of figures in jazz.
Is this one of his paintings? After reading your reviews of graphic novels, I wish you would write about him at length. There's very little info on his life to be found on the Internet.
That is not his work. I would show you an example of one but I don't know how to embed a JPG in the comments section. Thank you for the suggestion about writing about him. I just may take you up on that...
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