“Poetic Justice: Reflections on the Big House, the Death House and the American Way of Justice” is Professor Robert Johnson’s first col­lec­tion of poems about prison and cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment. The col­lec­tion explores the day-to-day life of pris­on­ers and exam­ines the emo­tion­al impact of serv­ing time on death row. Johnson, a pro­fes­sor of jus­tice, law and soci­ety at American University, is an award-win­ning author of sev­er­al social sci­ence books on crime and pun­ish­ment and has won the Outstanding Book Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. (Northwoods Press, 2003) See Resources.

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