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The Price He Was Willing to Pay: ‘Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years’
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The Price He Was Willing to Pay: ‘Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years’

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 / 10 November 2017

By picking up his subject after the most infamous event in Wilde's life, Frankel is able to rebuild the narrative of Wilde's post-prison life from the detritus of his public undoing.

The Real Walking Dead: Joshua M. Price’s ‘Prison and Social Death’
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The Real Walking Dead: Joshua M. Price’s ‘Prison and Social Death’

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 / 1 December 2015
This book is about society. Shifting the focus from the individual (crime) to the social (punishment) is not so much a political choice as it is an ethical imperative.
What Happened When the War on Drugs Replaced the Great Society’s War on Poverty?
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What Happened When the War on Drugs Replaced the Great Society’s War on Poverty?

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 / 2 January 2014
The Punishment Imperative doesn't obscure the authors' sympathy for those who have suffered during America's war on crime and drugs.
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‘Shakespeare for Life’: Teaching the Bard to Supermax Prisoners

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 / 4 September 2013