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Book Review: Cruel and Unusual: Punishment and US Culture

Crime,Media,Culture: An International Journal

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First published online December, 2006

Book Review: Cruel and Unusual: Punishment and US Culture

Volume 2, Issue 3

https://doi.org/10.1177/1741659006069692

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Chancer, Lynn (1992) Sado-masochism in Everyday Life: The Dynamics of Power and Powerlessness. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press .

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