Is Punishment the Only Response to Violence and Poverty?

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10/02/2016 31 min Episodio 51
Is Punishment the Only Response to Violence and Poverty?

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HKS Professor Bruce Western, Chair of the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management, explains how the prison population in the United States has quintupled since the 1970s and advocates for changes to the penal code to better deal with deep-rooted social problems.

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