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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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Book cover for 9780679752554
 
Reprint edition from Vintage Books (May 1, 1995)
9780679752554 | details & prices | 5.50 × 8.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.60 lbs | List price $17.00
About: Beginning with the emergence of Western penal methods in the seventeenth century, the noted French philosopher explores the role of prisons in society and shows that prisons today, as always, simply define, refine, and perpetuate crime.