Rehabilitation as Rhetoric: The Ideal of Reformation in Contemporary Parole Discourse and Practices

Punishment & Society

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 40-65

  Lynch, Mona ^a  

^a SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

parole; punishment; rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993729338     PISSN: 14624745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/14624740022227854     Document Type: Article

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