Papua New Guinea's Last Place : Experiences of Constraint in a Postcolonial Prison.

What kind of experience is incarceration? How should one define its constraints? The author, who conducted extensive fieldwork in a maximum-security jail in Papua New Guinea, seeks to address these questions through a vivid and sympathetic account of inmates' lives. Prison Studies is a growing...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Reed, Adam
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2004.
Temas:
Bomana Major Central Area Correction Institution (Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea)
Prisons > Papua New Guinea.
Prison psychology > Papua New Guinea.
Prison discipline > Papua New Guinea.
Prisoners > Papua New Guinea > Social conditions.
Prisons > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée.
Prisonniers > Psychologie > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée.
Prisons > Discipline > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée.
Prisonniers > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée > Conditions sociales.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Prison discipline
Prison psychology
Prisoners > Social conditions
Prisons
Papua New Guinea
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:What kind of experience is incarceration? How should one define its constraints? The author, who conducted extensive fieldwork in a maximum-security jail in Papua New Guinea, seeks to address these questions through a vivid and sympathetic account of inmates' lives. Prison Studies is a growing field of interest for social scientists. As one of the first ethnographic studies of a prison outside western societies and Japan, this book contributes to a reinterpretation of the field's scope and assumptions. It challenges notions of what is punitive about imprisonment by exploring the creat.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (208 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-193) and index.
ISBN:9781782381815
1782381813

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