Publisher's Synopsis
Explores attitudes toward crime, madness and poverty, and asks the question, why did Americans, beginning in the 1800s construct prisons and insane asylums to confine their deviant population.
About the Publisher
Little, Brown is the literary hardback imprint that feeds into our Abacus paperback list. We publish across a wide range of areas, including fiction, history, memoir, science and travel, but within this diverse list the vast majority of books have in common a strong narrative and a distinctive voice.
