The Puzzle of Prison Order: Why Life Behind Bars Varies Around the World: Why Life Behind Bars Varies Around the World - Couverture souple

Skarbek, David

 
9780190672508: The Puzzle of Prison Order: Why Life Behind Bars Varies Around the World: Why Life Behind Bars Varies Around the World
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ISBN 10 : 0190672501 ISBN 13 : 9780190672508
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2020

Synopsis

Many people think prisons are all the same-rows of cells filled with violent men who officials rule with an iron fist. Yet, life behind bars varies in incredible ways. In some facilities, prison officials govern with care and attention to prisoners' needs. In others, officials have remarkably little influence on the everyday life of prisoners, sometimes not even providing necessities like food and clean water. Why does prison social order around the world look so remarkably different? In The Puzzle of Prison Order, David Skarbek develops a theory of why prisons and prison life vary so much. He finds that how they're governed-sometimes by the state, and sometimes by the prisoners-matters the most. He investigates life in a wide array of prisons-in Brazil, Bolivia, Norway, a prisoner of war camp, England and Wales, women's prisons in California, and a gay and transgender housing unit in the Los Angeles County Jail-to understand the hierarchy of life on the inside. Drawing on economics and a vast empirical literature on legal systems, Skarbek offers a framework to not only understand why life on the inside varies in such fascinating and novel ways, but also how social order evolves and takes root behind bars.

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À propos de l?auteur

David Skarbek is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Political Theory Project at Brown University. He is the author of The Social Order of the Underworld (Oxford, 2014), which won the APSA's William Riker Award for best book in political economy and the Outstanding Book Award from International Association for the Study of Organized Crime.

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0190672501
ISBN 13 
9780190672508
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
240
Coordonnées du fabricant
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ISBN 10 :  0190672498 ISBN 13 :  9780190672492
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2020
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