Injustice and Prophecy in the Age of Mass Incarceration
The Politics of Sanity
Why do the UK and US disproportionately incarcerate the mentally ill? Via multiple reframings of the question—theological, socioeconomic, and psychological— Andrew Skotnicki diagnoses a "persecution of the prophetic" at the heart of the contemporary criminal justice system. Les mer
Why do the UK and US disproportionately incarcerate the mentally ill? Via multiple reframings of the question—theological, socioeconomic, and psychological— Andrew Skotnicki diagnoses a "persecution of the prophetic" at the heart of the contemporary criminal justice system.
This interdisciplinary book considers the increasingly intractable issue of mass incarceration and invites a new, collaborative conversation on penal reform as a fundamentally "life-affirming" project.
This interdisciplinary book considers the increasingly intractable issue of mass incarceration and invites a new, collaborative conversation on penal reform as a fundamentally "life-affirming" project.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Bristol University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 182
- ISBN
- 9781529222210
- Utgivelsesår
- 2022
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm