Prisons and the Problem of Order (Clarendon Studies in Criminology) - Hardcover

Sparks, Richard; Bottoms, Anthony; Hay, Will

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198258186 ISBN 13: 9780198258186

Verlag: OUP Oxford, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

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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Richard Sparks is Professor of Criminology at the University of Keele.

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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 this 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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0198258186
• ISBN 13: 9780198258186
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 396
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