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. Michael Lewin, who ran a similar program at Sing-Sing prison in 1953. Stone writes with compassion and authority. The idea behind the practice was that a free physical alteration of a prisoner. Expertly and rigorously researched, Killer Looks takes the reader through the little-known practice of testing surgeries on prisoners, the rise and fall of the rehabilitation movement, the surprising economics of lookism, and the ingrained racism at the heart of all of it. The program, funded by a $240,000 grant from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, was led by Dr. In this book, Zara Stone dives into the history of plastic surgery in prisons. In 1967, a three-year cosmetic surgery program set on Rikers Island saw recidivism rates drop 36 percent for surgically altered offenders. Her latest book, Killer Looks: The Forgotten History of Plastic Surgery in.

And, strange as it may sound, the criminologists were right: Recidivism rates plummeted. Zara Stone (San Francisco, CA) is an award-winning journalist who covers the intersection of culture, technology, and social justice. Zara Stone, author of The Future of Science Is Female: The Brilliant Minds. 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. 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. 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.

Killer Looks by Zara Stone