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The Society of Captives : A Study of a Maximum Security Prison /

The author wrote the book at the height of the Cold War, motivated by the world's experience of fascism and communism to study the closest thing to a totalitarian system in American life : a maximum security prison. His analysis calls into question the extent to which prisons can succeed in the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Sykes, Gresham M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2007.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The prison and its setting
  • 2. The regime of the custodians
  • 3. The defects of total power
  • 4. The pains of imprisonment
  • 5. Argot roles
  • 6. Crisis and equilibrium
  • 7. A postscript for reformers
  • Epilogue. The structural-functional perspective of imprisonment
  • Appendix A.A note on method
  • Appendix B. The routine of imprisonment.