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Locked Up : A History of the U.S. Prison System by Laura Bufano Edge (2009, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherLerner Publishing Group

ISBN-100822587505

ISBN-139780822587507

eBay Product ID (ePID)69992426

Product Key Features

Book TitleLocked Up : a History of the U.S. Prison System

Number of Pages112 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicSociology / General, Social Science / General, History / United States / General, Penology, United States / General

Publication Year2009

IllustratorYes

GenreJuvenile Nonfiction, Social Science, History

AuthorLaura Bufano Edge

Book SeriesPeople's History Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Length8.6 in

Item Width7.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceElementary/High School

LCCN2008-026883

Dewey Edition22

Grade FromFifth Grade

Educational LevelHigh School, Elementary School

Dewey Decimal365/.973

Grade ToTwelfth Grade

SynopsisIn the 1700s, New England colonists used public humiliation, torture, and hanging to punish moral crimes like kissing on a Sunday or skipping church. Jails were filled with rats and disease, and prisoners had to pay for food and blankets. Yet jails didn't turn out to be much of a deterrent. the number of crimes exploded as the population increased and cities grew larger. Over the centuries, American prison reformers have tried to find a way to end crime once and for all. from solitary confinement and the electric chair to group counseling and parole, the U.S. prison system has been reinvented again and again, but have these reforms really made a difference? Discover the true history of crime and punishment in the United States in Locked Up.

LC Classification NumberHV9466.E34 2009