Author : Sparks, Bottoms, Hay Year of publication: 1996 Format: Hardback Signature: No First edition :No Condition: Very Good Category: Education Cost of book: £50 Price negotiable: No
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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.
