Prison Breaks - Toward a Sociology of Escape (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)

This edited collection analyses the prison through the most fundamental challenge it faces: escapes. The chapters comprise original research from established prison scholars who develop the contours of a sociology of prison escapes. Drawing on firm empirical evidence from places like India, Tunisia, Canada, the UK, France, Uganda, Italy, Sierra Leone, and Mexico, the authors show how escapes not only break the prison, but are also fundamental to the existence of such institutions: how they are imagined, designed, organized, justified, reproduced and transformed. The chapters are organised in four interconnected themes: resistance and everyday life; politics and transition; imaginaries and popular culture; and law and bureaucracy, which reflect how escapes are productive, local, historical, and equivocal social practices, and integral to the mysterious intransigence of the prison. The result is a critical and theoretically informed understanding of prison escapes - which has so far been absent in prison scholarship - and which will hold broad appeal to academics and students of prisons and penology, as well as practitioners.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
Release date:	February 2018
First published:	2018
Editors:	Tomas Max Martin • Gilles Chantraine
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	351
Edition:	1st ed. 2018
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-64357-1
Categories:	Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Criminal law Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > Penology & punishment > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > Offenders > Juvenile offenders
LSN:	3-319-64357-6
Barcode:	9783319643571

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