The Jail : Managing the Underclass in american society /
Combining extensive interviews with his own experience as an inmate, John Irwin constructs a powerful and graphic description of the big-city jail. Unlike prisons, which incarcerate convicted felons, jails primarily confine arrested persons not yet charged or convicted of any serious crime. Irwin ar...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
1985.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Contents; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Managing Rabble; 2 Who Is Arrested?; 3 Disintegration; 4 Disorientation; 5 Degradation; 6 Preparation; 7 Rabble, Crime, and the Jail; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.