Special issue : the beautiful prison / / editeb by Austin Sarat ; contributors, Michelle Brown [and six others]
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| Titolo: |
Special issue : the beautiful prison / / editeb by Austin Sarat ; contributors, Michelle Brown [and six others]
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| Pubblicazione: | Bingley, England : , : Emerald, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Edizione: | First edition. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (107 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 365.9 |
| Soggetto topico: | Prisons - United States |
| Imprisonment - United States | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Persona (resp. second.): | SaratAustin |
| BrownMichelle | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters. |
| Nota di contenuto: | FRONT COVER; SPECIAL ISSUE: THE BEAUTIFUL PRISON; COPYRIGHT PAGE; CONTENTS; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; EDITORIAL BOARD; INTRODUCTION; NOTE; REFERENCES; SEARCHING FOR THE BEAUTIFUL PRISON; THE ENLIGHTENED PRISON; HOPE VERSUS DESPAIR; GROWTH VERSUS STASIS; RECOGNITION OF MERIT VERSUS DEMERIT; INDIVIDUALITY VERSUS CLASS-IFICATION; COMMUNITY VERSUS ISOLATION; CONCLUSION; NOTE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; KNOWING THAT WE ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE: A CASE FOR CRITICAL PRISON PROGRAMMING; INTRODUCTION; BACKGROUND OF THE EJP; REASONABLE PERSON MODEL; LANGUAGE PARTNERS; THE TEACHING PARTNERS; CONCLUSION |
| NOTESREFERENCES; RETHINKING THE HUMANITIES THROUGH TEACHING THE HOLOCAUST IN PRISON; CONCLUSION; NOTES; REFERENCES; OF PRISONS, GARDENS, AND THE WAY OUT; ANARCHY; DOMINATION; CULTIVATION; A WAY OUT; NOTES; REFERENCES; WHAT BLOOMS: THE JAILHOUSE, INSIDE OUT; NOTES; REFERENCES | |
| 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. Long-term prisoner Kenneth E. Hartman engages the reader in his struggle to find beauty inside the increasingly bleak and sterile confines of the California Department of Corrections. Chuck Jackson releases his imagination on Houston's notorious Harris Co |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Special issue |
| ISBN: | 1-78350-966-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910458527003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Studies in law, politics, and society ; ; Volume 64.