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portada Killer Looks: The Forgotten History of Plastic Surgery in Prisons
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Year
2021
Language
English
Pages
360
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
23.3 x 16.2 x 3.3 cm
Weight
0.68 kg.
ISBN13
9781633886728
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Killer Looks: The Forgotten History of Plastic Surgery in Prisons

Zara Stone (Author) · Prometheus Books · Hardcover

Killer Looks: The Forgotten History of Plastic Surgery in Prisons - Stone, Zara

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Synopsis "Killer Looks: The Forgotten History of Plastic Surgery in Prisons "

Killer Looks is the definitive story about the long-forgotten practice of providing free nose jobs, face-lifts, breast implants, and other physical alterations to prisoners, the idea being that by remodeling the face you remake the man. From the 1920s up to the mid-1990s, half a million prison inmates across America, Canada, and the U.K willingly went under the knife, their tab picked up by the government. In the beginning, this was a haphazard affair -- applied inconsistently and unfairly to inmates, but entering the 1960s, a movement to scientifically quantify the long-term effect of such programs took hold. And, strange as it may sound, the criminologists were right: recidivism rates plummeted. In 1967, a three-year cosmetic surgery program set on Rikers Island saw recidivism rates drop 36% for surgically altered offenders. The program, funded by a $240,000 grant from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, was led by Dr. Michael Lewin, who ran a similar program at Sing-Sing prison in 1953. Killer Looks draws on the intersectionality of socioeconomic success, racial bias, the prison industry complex and the fallacy of attractiveness to get to the heart of how appearance and societal approval creates self-worth, and uncovers deeper truths of beauty bias, inherited racism, effective recidivism programs, and inequality.

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