Prison Worlds: An Ethnography Of The Carceral Condition
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| Originally published | November 2, 2016 |
| Authors | Didier Fassin |
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| ID | 2078721 |
About Prison Worlds: An Ethnography Of The Carceral Condition
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? . . .