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Articles by Amy Vanderwarker

Book Review: Anne-Marie Cusac, Cruel and Unusual: The Culture of Punishment in America, 336 pp, Yale University Press, $27.50

Anne-Marie Cusac is probing important questions in her book, Cruel and Unusual: The Culture of Punishment in America. What are the underlying social values that have allowed a prison state as vast as the U.S.’s to thrive? How is this related to the many examples of violence in popular culture? ...