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Power and Pain in the Modern Prison: The Society of Captives Revisited
The book discusses such matters as the pains of imprisonment, penal order, staff-prisoner relationships and the everyday world of the prison, drawing on and critiquing Sykes's theories and insights, and placing them in their historic and contemporary context.
| Author(s) | Edited by Ben Crewe (Professor of Penology and Criminal Justice, Professor of Penology and Criminal Justice, University of Cambridge, UK), Andrew Goldsmith (Distinguished Professor of Criminology, Distinguished Professor of Criminology, Flinders Universit |
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| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 416 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 28 Apr 2022 |
| Availability | Available |
The book discusses such matters as the pains of imprisonment, penal order, staff-prisoner relationships and the everyday world of the prison, drawing on and critiquing Sykes's theories and insights, and placing them in their historic and contemporary context.
A letter from Gresham Sykes IntroductionBen Crewe, Andrew Goldsmith, and Mark Halsey: Situating Sykes 1: Craig Haney: Sykes's prison in context: Change and continuity in the life span of a penitentiary 2: Mark Halsey: Sykes' method in context: The pl
Ben Crewe is Professor of Penology and Criminal Justice, and deputy director of the Prisons Research Centre, at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK. He has published widely on prisons and imprisonment, including his 2009 monograph 'T
