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 remodelling the face you remake the man. From the 1920s up to the mid-1990s, half a million prison inma...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham, MD :
Prometheus,
[2021]
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| Summary: | 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 remodelling the face you remake the man. From the 1920s up to the mid-1990s, half a million prison inmates across America, Canada, and the UK 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 programmes took hold. And, strange as it may sound, the criminologists were right - recidivism rates plummeted. In 1967, a three-year cosmetic surgery programme set on Rikers Island saw recidivism rates drop 36% for surgically altered offenders |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1633886735 9781633886735 |
| Access: | EBSCOhost Multi-User Restricted for use by site license |