Prison worlds : an ethnography of the carceral condition / Didier Fassin ; translated by Rachel Gomme.

"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 wo...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Ombre du monde. English
Main Author:	Fassin, Didier (Author)
Other Authors:	Gomme, Rachel (Translator)
Language:	English
Language of the Original:	French
Language and/or Writing System:	Translated from the French.
Published:	Cambridge, UK : Polity, 2017.
Subjects:	Prisons > Social aspects > France. Prisons > Overcrowding > France. Criminal justice, Administration of > France. Prisons > Social aspects. Criminal justice, Administration of. Prisons > Overcrowding. 71.65 criminality as a social problem. 88.15 public services, public enterprises and quasi-public institutions. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General. France. Verwaltung. Gefängnis. Ethnologie. Frankreich. Crime.
Physical Description:	xx, 382 pages ; 24 cm
Format:	Book

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