Ben Crewe

The Prisoner Society (eBook, PDF)

Power, Adaptation and Social Life in an English Prison

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Based on in-depth fieldwork in a medium-security training prison for men, The Prisoner Society offers a comprehensive analysis of contemporary imprisonment. In particular, it explains how penal power is exerted by the institution, how prisoners adapt to its terms, and the relationships, hierarchies, and everyday dynamics that characterise the prisoner social world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780191629730
• Artikelnr.: 38130127

Autorenporträt

Ben Crewe is Deputy Director of the Prisons Research Centre, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, where he has been based since 2001. Ben has published widely on prison social life and culture, on the contemporary prison experience, and on public and private sector imprisonment. He was awarded his PhD from the University of Essex, and holds a Masters Degree from London School of Economics and a first class honours degree from the University of Cambridge.