Impermissible Punishments

Book • 2025

Judith Resnik's new book chronicles a crucial divergence after the 1980s, when European systems maintained stronger human rights commitments while American prisons retreated from recognizing prisoners as rights-bearing individuals, thereby making prison a problem for its democracy.

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Judith Resnik

's new book on punishment and how prison became a problem for democracy.

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