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Prison Worlds - An Ethnography of the Carceral Condition (Hardcover)
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Prison Worlds - An Ethnography of the Carceral Condition (Hardcover)
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The prison is a recent invention, hardly more than two centuries
old, yet it has become the universal system of punishment. How can
we understand the place that the correctional system occupies in
contemporary societies? What are the experiences of those who are
incarcerated as well as those who work there? To answer these
questions, Didier Fassin conducted a four-year-long study in a
French short-stay prison, following inmates from their trial to
their release. He shows how the widespread use of imprisonment has
reinforced social and racial inequalities and how advances in civil
rights clash with the rationales and practices used to maintain
security and order. He also analyzes the concerns and compromises
of the correctional staff, the hardships and resistance of the
inmates, and the ways in which life on the inside intersects with
life on the outside. In the end, the carceral condition appears to
be irreducible to other forms of penalty both because of the chain
of privations it entails and because of the experience of
meaninglessness it comprises. Examined through ethnographic lenses,
prison worlds are thus both a reflection of society and its mirror.
At a time when many countries have begun to realize the impasse of
mass incarceration and question the consequences of the punitive
turn, this book will provide empirical and theoretical tools to
reflect on the meaning of punishment in contemporary societies.
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