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"Big Prisons, Big Dreams is certain to be a contemporary classic�a volume that will change minds and inspire a fresh vision for correctional policy.--Francis T. Cullen ""University of Cincinnati"" In this book, whose very readable prose renders it accessible also to a non-specialist readership, Lynch puts forward three basic and yet powerful ideas about the ongoing experiment with mass imprisonment: it is useless...it is deeply unjust...it has become unsustainable....""Big Prisons, Big Dreams"" offers an important contribution toward the construction of a materialist criminology for our times.--Alessandro De Giorgi ""Punishment and Society"""

"Big Prisons, Big Dreams is certain to be a contemporary classicùa volume that will change minds and inspire a fresh vision for correctional policy.--Francis T. Cullen ""University of Cincinnati"" In this book, whose very readable prose renders it accessible also to a non-specialist readership, Lynch puts forward three basic and yet powerful ideas about the ongoing experiment with mass imprisonment: it is useless...it is deeply unjust...it has become unsustainable....""Big Prisons, Big Dreams"" offers an important contribution toward the construction of a materialist criminology for our times.--Alessandro De Giorgi ""Punishment and Society"""

Big Prisons, Big Dreams is certain to be a contemporary classicùa volume that will change minds and inspire a fresh vision for correctional policy.--Francis T. Cullen ""University of Cincinnati"" In this book, whose very readable prose renders it accessible also to a non-specialist readership, Lynch puts forward three basic and yet powerful ideas about the ongoing experiment with mass imprisonment: it is useless...it is deeply unjust...it has become unsustainable....""Big Prisons, Big Dreams"" offers an important contribution toward the construction of a materialist criminology for our times.--Alessandro De Giorgi ""Punishment and Society""

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Michael J. Lynch is a professor in the department of criminology at the University of South Florida.

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