Book review: The crisis of imprisonment: Protest,politics,and the making of the American penal state,1776—1941,Rebecca M. McLennan. New York: Cambridge University Press,2008. 520 pp. $24.95 (pbk). ISBN 978—0—521—53783—4
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Book review: The crisis of imprisonment: Protest,politics,and the making of the American penal state,1776—1941,Rebecca M. McLennan. New York: Cambridge University Press,2008. 520 pp. $24.95 (pbk). ISBN 978—0—521—53783—4
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