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Inferno

An Anatomy of American Punishment

Robert A. Ferguson

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ISBN 9780674983939

Publication Date: 06/04/2018

352 pages

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Robert A. Ferguson was George Edward Woodberry Professor in Law, Literature, and Criticism at Columbia University.

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Listen to Robert Ferguson discuss mass incarceration in the United States on WYPR (Baltimore, MD)’s Midday with Dan Rodricks
At the Guardian, read Professor Ferguson on America’s “punishment addiction”
Read an excerpt from Inferno at PopMatters
At the Atlantic, read a long consideration of Inferno’s “potentially transformative” provocation to American criminal justice
At the HUP Blog, read Ferguson’s description of the theme of isolation that runs from his earlier Alone in America through Inferno

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