Preface<br > "Don t look back," Satchel Paige advised, "something might be<br >gaining on you." Yet, of necessity, this book regards the future by<br >looking over its shoulder at the past. In any consideration of the social<br >institution of imprisonment--especially in any attempt to change<br >it--the weight of history must be placed in the balance. The recent<br >excellent works of David Rothman, Michel Foucault, and Michael<br >Ignatieff have confirmed the importance of a historical perspective on<br >any era s policy prescriptions.<br > This is, however, explicitly a policy book. In Chapter 5, the<br >analysis of the past is allowed to inform some recommendations<br >which mesh liberal and conservative views. Although in some cases<br >we have been driven back to original sources, this is not a work of<br >primary social history in which lessons are inferred from a mass of<br >detail. Ours is an idiosyncratic view of the constraints imposed by<br >traditions on future choices, and its policy lessons are not shared by<br >many of the historians on whose work we have tried to build.<br > The genesis of the book may help to explain another of its features.<br > In 1977--80, the first author participated in a major study (commis-<br > sioned by the U.S. Department of Justice) of the American correc-<br > tional system. The central task was to advise the Congress, through<br > the agency, of the present and future needs of the country s prisons<br > and jails. The legislators, it seems, believed initially that the long-<br > term future of the system was something that could be forecasted or<br > projected with confidence. On the surface, this may seem a sensible<br > goal. Yet as some of the researchers argued at the time and as this<br > book maintains, this is not the way to approach the problem. To<br > convert a policy analysis into a mechanical forecasting exercise is not<br > only impossible in any respectable professional way, it is potentially<br > dangerous.<br > Some of the dangers are addressed below, and others are examined<br > by Kenneth Carlson in the project s report, American Prisons and<br > Jails. Here we simply note that a great deal of correctional policy is<br > currently made by this misguided reliance on forecasting the demand<br > of an inexorable prison pol~ulation and meeting it with a supply of<br >1X<br ><br >
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评分这部作品的语言风格无疑是最吸引我的地方。它不像某些当代文学那样追求华丽辞藻的堆砌,而是用一种极其克制、冷静甚至有些疏离的笔触,去描绘最激烈的情感波动。这种反差产生了奇妙的化学反应,使得那些内敛的表达反而具有了更强大的穿透力。作者擅长使用短促有力的句子,将复杂的心理活动分解成一系列清晰的意象,如同老电影的特写镜头,精准而有力。同时,他对白的设计也极为精妙,每一个字都似乎经过了千锤百炼,简单却信息量巨大,往往一句话就能揭示人物深层的动机或背景。这种“少即是多”的写作哲学,让整部作品的节奏感张弛有度,避免了冗长乏味。对于那些欣赏文学性、注重文字本身的读者来说,这本书绝对是一场纯粹的盛宴,值得细细品味每一个句子的构造与韵味。
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评分我拿起这本书的时候,抱着相当高的期望,毕竟它的名声在外。然而,实际阅读过程却让我体验到了一种强烈的代入感和压迫感,这种感觉并非来自于惊悚元素,而是一种持续不断的、低沉的、令人窒息的氛围渲染。作者对环境的描写具有极强的画面感和感官冲击力,你几乎能闻到空气中的霉味,听到墙壁上传来的细微声响。他构建的世界观是如此的真实可信,以至于让你怀疑这是否只是基于现实的延伸。这本书的魅力在于它的“真实性”,它没有美化任何事情,而是赤裸裸地呈现了人性的脆弱和制度的冰冷。读完后,我感到了一种深刻的无力感,这种感觉并不是因为故事的结局不好,而是因为作者让你真切地感受到了那种无处不在的限制与束缚。它不仅仅是一本书,更像是一份对特定社会状态的详尽且令人不安的记录报告,充满了沉重的历史回响。
评分这部作品的文字力量简直是惊人的,它以一种近乎手术刀般的精准度,剖开了现代社会中那些令人不安的角落。作者的叙事技巧高超,仿佛能将读者直接拽入故事的核心,让你身临其境地感受到那些被压抑的情感和无声的呐喊。我尤其欣赏他对人物内心世界的细腻描摹,那些挣扎、矛盾和最终的自我救赎,都处理得极为真实可信。书中的场景构建也十分出色,无论是繁华都市的冷漠光影,还是偏僻角落的破败景象,都跃然纸上,让人过目不忘。它不是那种一味追求情节跌宕起伏的畅销小说,而更像是一面直指人心的镜子,迫使我们去审视那些我们通常选择性忽视的社会现实。读完之后,我久久无法平静,那种被深刻触动后的余韵,是许多普通读物无法比拟的。这无疑是一部需要用心去品读,并且值得反复回味的文学佳作,它在艺术性和思想深度上都达到了一个极高的水准,强烈推荐给所有对严肃文学有追求的读者。
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