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Tony Platt
Auteur van Beyond These Walls: Rethinking Crime and Punishment in the United States
Werken van Tony Platt
Grave Matters: The Controversy over Excavating California's Buried Indigenous Past (2021) 5 exemplaren
Crime and social justice : issues in criminology; a journal of the Inst. for the Study of Labor and Economic Crisis (1981) 4 exemplaren
The Scandal of Cal: Land Grabs, White Supremacy, and Miseducation at UC Berkeley (2023) 4 exemplaren
Punishment and penal discipline : essays on the prison and the prisoners' movement (1980) 3 exemplaren
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My Thoughts I admit, at first I didn’t think I was going to like this book. It started out slow – detail-heavy, with too many statistics listed in sentence after sentence. However, I started getting more into the narrative by the second or third chapter, when Platt started including more information on each event spoken about, instead of just listing events. By the end of the book, I was quite enjoying the educational aspects of the book. This is a topic that I have read a bit on, but not extensively, so I can say that it is a good book for a lay-person trying to educate herself on the history of incarceration in the US. Platt’s views on how we got where we are today, and some of his suggestions of how to look at reform differently (i.e. from the top down and by putting more white-collar people in prison) are definitely food for thought. This is a well-researched book, with lots of important information. It’s not fast reading, but it is worthwhile.… (meer)