Prisons and the Problem of Order (Hardcover, New)

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.

General

Imprint:	Clarendon Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Clarendon Studies in Criminology
Release date:	June 1996
First published:	August 1996
Authors:	Richard Sparks (Professor of Criminology, Department of Criminology) • Anthony Bottoms (Wolfson Professor of Criminology and Director of the Institute of Criminology) • Will Hay (Lecturer in Applied Social Studies)
Dimensions:	224 x 144 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	396
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-825818-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > Penology & punishment > General
LSN:	0-19-825818-6
Barcode:	9780198258186

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