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1 Online-Ressource (208 pages)
ISBN:
9781782381815
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1782381813
Inhalt:
What kind of experience is incarceration? How should one define its constraints? The author, who conducted extensive fieldwork in a maximum-security jail in Papua New Guinea, seeks to address these questions through a vivid and sympathetic account of inmates' lives. Prison Studies is a growing field of interest for social scientists. As one of the first ethnographic studies of a prison outside western societies and Japan, this book contributes to a reinterpretation of the field's scope and assumptions. It challenges notions of what is punitive about imprisonment by exploring the creat
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-193) and index
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List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Prologue; Chapter 1: Dark Place; Chapter 2: Bus Stop; Chapter 3: Jeffrey's Flight; Chapter 4: Place of Men; Chapter 5: Place of God; Chapter 6: Following White Men; Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.
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ISBN 1571815813
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ISBN 9781571815811
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ISBN 1571816941
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ISBN 9781571816948
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Reed, Adam Papua New Guinea's Last Place : Experiences of Constraint in a Postcolonial Prison New York, NY : Berghahn Books, ©2004 ISBN 9781571816948
Sprache:
Englisch
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