Prisons and the Problem of Order (Clarendon Studies in Criminology) - Hardcover

Book 4 of 85: Clarendon Studies in Criminology

Sparks, Richard; Bottoms, Anthony; Hay, Will

 
9780198258186: Prisons and the Problem of Order (Clarendon Studies in Criminology)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0198258186 ISBN 13: 9780198258186
Publisher: OUP Oxford, 1996

Synopsis

This book presents a substantial new statement on the character of social life in confinement. Drawing upon extensive fieldwork in two contrasting English maximum security prisons, the authors systematically compare their institutional order, including the differing control strategies deployed in each, as seen by both custodians and captives, controllers and controlled. The authors discuss the implications of their research for the tradition of sociological concern within the`prison community'. They re-examine the resources of that rich but latterly somewhat dormant field in the light of some of the main currents in contemporary social theory, and thereby provide a new perspective on the `problem of order' in maximum custody. This book will have significant policy implications, and it will be required reading for scholars and students in criminology and criminal justice, as well as for administrators and reformers in penal system.

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About the Author

Richard Sparks is Professor of Criminology at the University of Keele.

From the Back Cover

This book presents a substantial new statement on the character of social life in confinement. Drawing upon extensive fieldwork in two contrasting English maximum security prisons, the authors systematically compare this institutional order, including the differing control strategies deployed in each, as seen by both custodians and captives, controllers and controlled. The authors discuss the implications of their research for the tradition of sociological concern within the 'prison community'. They re-examine the resources of that rich but latterly somewhat dormant field in the light of some of the main currents in contemporary social theory, and thereby provide a new perspective on the 'problem of order' in maximum custody. This book will have significant policy implications, and it will be required reading for scholars and students in criminology and criminal justice, as well as for administrators and reformers in penal system.

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Publisher
OUP Oxford
Publication date
1996
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0198258186
ISBN 13 
9780198258186
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
396