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Titolo: | Special issue The beautiful prison [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Austin Sarat |
Pubblicazione: | Bingley, England : , : Emerald, , 2014 |
©2014 | |
Edizione: | First edition. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (107 p.) |
Disciplina: | 365.9 |
Soggetto topico: | Social Science - Criminology |
Prisons | |
Law & society | |
Penology & punishment | |
Prisons - United States | |
Imprisonment - United States | |
Altri autori: | SaratAustin |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Special issue |
ISBN: | 1-78350-966-X |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910791032103321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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