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Can Prisons Work? : The Prisoner as Object and Subject in Modern Corrections /

Can individuals be reformed or rehabilitated in the prison? A persistent body of work indicates that rehabilitation and/or reformation through incarceration is illusory. Exceptions, according to this view, are the result of accident, not design. For many practitioners in corrections systems, the inc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Duguid, Stephen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2000.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The origins of curing crime and similar popular delusions
  • 3. Insight wars : the struggle for the prisoner's mind and soul
  • 4. Let a hundred flowers bloom, a hundred schools of thought contend
  • 5. Reeling about : the era of opportunities
  • 6. The return of the criminal as 'the enemy within'
  • 7. A cold wind from the north, the medical model redux
  • 8. From object to subject, the potential for a room of one's own within the prison.