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Surviving Russian Prisons : Punishment, Economy and Politics in Transition.
What do Russian prisons look like? Who is sent to prison in Russia? How is punishment allocated and administered? This pioneering book aims to answer these and other questions by embarking on a journey that begins by exploring how the prisons have survived the collapse of the USSR, and ends with a d...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cullompton :
Willan Pub.,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Copyright Page; Contents; List of tables and figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Context of research and methodology; 2 Prison labour, reform and economics: a review of the literature; 3 Filling the void: Russia's new 'penal identities'; 4 Barter: Russia's 'penal micro-economy'; 5 Penal ideology in transition: identification in geographical spaces; 6 Prison practices that test the limits of human rights norms; 7 Western borrowings: how human rights have 'travelled' to Russian prisons; 8 Beyond the metaphor: the phenomenon of 'failed penal societies'; Appendices; References.
- Index.