In Defense of Flogging (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780465032419)

Prisons impose tremendous costs, yet they're easily ignored. Criminals -- even low-level nonviolent offenders -- enter our dysfunctional criminal justice system and disappear into a morass that's safely hidden from public view. Our "tough on crime" political rhetoric offers us no way out, and prison reformers are too quickly dismissed as soft on criminals. Meanwhile, the taxpayer picks up the extraordinary and unnecessary bill.

In Defense of Flogging presents a solution both radical and simple: give criminals a choice between incarceration and the lash. Flogging is punishment: quick, cheap, and honest.

Noted criminologist Peter Moskos, in irrefutable style, shows the logic of the new system while highlighting flaws in the status quo. Flogging may be cruel, but In Defense of Flogging shows us that compared to our broken prison system, it is the lesser of two evils.

Author: Peter Moskos
ISBN-10: 0465032419
ISBN-13: 9780465032419
Publisher: Basic Books
Language: English
Published: 02/05/2013
Pages: 183
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.20h x 4.80w x 0.60d