- Hardcover: 396 pages
- Publisher: Clarendon Press; 1st ed. edition (6 Jun 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0198258186
- ISBN-13: 978-0198258186
- Product Dimensions: 14 x 21.6 x 2.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,532,631 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This book presents a substantial new statement on the character of social life in confinement. Drawing upon extensive fieldwork in two contrasting English maximum security prisons, the authors systematically compare their institutional order, including the differing control strategies deployed in each, as seen by both custodians and captives, controllers and controlled. The authors discuss the implications of their research for the tradition of sociological concern within the`prison community'. They re-examine the resources of that rich but latterly somewhat dormant field in the light of some of the main currents in contemporary social theory, and thereby provide a new perspective on the `problem of order' in maximum custody. This book will have significant policy implications, and it will be required reading for scholars and students in criminology and criminal justice, as well as for administrators and reformers in penal system.
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ONE of the central tasks of any prison administration is to maintain order within prisons. Read the first page
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