Ashley T Rubin

The Deviant Prison

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 776g
• ISBN-13: 9781108484947
• ISBN-10: 1108484948
• Artikelnr.: 59081388

Autorenporträt

Ashley T. Rubin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Hawai'i at M¿noa. Her work has been published in top international journals for interdisciplinary studies of law, punishment, and criminology and has appeared as a TEDx talk.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. Becoming the Deviant Prison: Establishing the
Conditions for Personal Institutionalization: 1. Faith and Failure:
Experimenting with Solitary Confinement in America's Early State Prisons;
2. Born of Conflict: the Struggle to Authorize the Pennsylvania System; 3.
Uncertainty and Discretion: the Contours of Control at Eastern State
Penitentiary; 4. Criticism and Doubt: the Pennsylvania System and the
Social Construction of Penal Norms; Part II. The Advantage of Difference:
the Process of Institutionalization: 5. Neutralizing the Calumnious Myths:
Administrators' Public Defense of the Pennsylvania System; 6. Combatting
the Pains of Deviance: Organizational Defense as Self-defense; 7. Strategic
Manipulations: Acceptable and Unacceptable Violations of the Pennsylvania
System; 8. Turning a Blind Eye: Reputation and the Limits of Administrative
Commitment; Part III. Forced to Adapt: the Conditions for and Process of
Deinstitutionalization: 9. An Alternative Status: Administrators'
Transition from Gentleman Reformers to Professional Penologists; 10. Fading
Away: National Obscurity, Catastrophic Overcrowding, and the Individual
Treatment System; Conclusion.