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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Reed, Adam
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2004.
Subjects:
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
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Prologue; Chapter 1: Dark Place; Chapter 2: Bus Stop; Chapter 3: Jeffrey's Flight; Chapter 4: Place of Men; Chapter 5: Place of God; Chapter 6: Following White Men; Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.

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