More than 2 million persons occupy America's prisons and jails
today ? the highest per capita incarceration rate in U.S. history.
With just 6 percent of the world's population, the United States
now holds 25 percent of its prisoners. At what social cost do we
build and fill more prisons?
In Good Punishment? James Samuel Logan critiques the American
obsession with imprisonment as punishment, calling it "retributive
degradation" of the incarcerated. His analysis draws on both
salient empirical data and material from a variety of disciplines ?
social history, anthropology, law and penal theory, philosophy of
religion ? as he uncovers the devastating social consequences (both
direct and collateral) of imprisonment on such a large,
unprecedented scale.
A distinctive contribution of this book lies in its development
of a Christian social ethics of "good punishment" embodied as a
politics of "healing memories" and "ontological intimacy." Logan
earnestly explores how Christians can best engage with the
real-life issues and concerns surrounding the American practice of
imprisonment.
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