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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791032103321

Titolo

Special issue The beautiful prison [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Austin Sarat

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bingley, England : , : Emerald, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-78350-966-X

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (107 p.)

Collana

Studies in law, politics, and society, , 1059-4337 ; ; v. 64

Altri autori (Persone)

SaratAustin

Disciplina

365.9

Soggetti

Social Science - Criminology

Prisons

Law & society

Penology & punishment

Prisons - United States

Imprisonment - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Doran Larson -- Searching for the beautiful prison / Kenneth Hartman -- The enlightened prison / Drew Leder -- Knowing that we are making a difference : a case for critical prison programming / Rebecca Ginsburg -- Rethinking the humanities through teaching the holocaust in prison / Anke Pinkert -- Of prisons, gardens, and the way out / Michelle Brown -- What blooms: the jailhouse, inside out / Chuck Jackson.

Sommario/riassunto

In The beautiful prison incarcerated Americans and prison critics seek to imagine the prison as something better than a machinery of suffering.  From personal testimony to theoretical meditation these writers explore and confront the practical and cultural limits the prison places on its transformation into a socially constructive institution.