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

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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Sykes, Gresham M.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2007.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
State Prison, Trenton (N.J.)
systeme penitentiaire.
execution de la peine.
execution de la peine > systeme penitentiaire > Etats-Unis.
Prisons > Administration > États-Unis > New Jersey (États-Unis) > Histoire.
Prisonniers > États-Unis > New Jersey (États-Unis) > Cas, Études de.
Prisons > États-Unis > New Jersey (États-Unis) > Cas, Études de.
Prisons.
Prisoners.
Prison administration.
Prisonniers > New Jersey > Cas, Études de.
Prisons > Administration > New Jersey > Histoire.
Prisons > New Jersey > Cas, Études de.
Prisoners > New Jersey > Case studies.
Prison administration > New Jersey > History.
Prisons > New Jersey > Case studies.
New Jersey.
History.
Case studies.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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