Cultures of Confinement: A History of the Prison in Africa, Asia, and Latin America

by Frank Dikötter

Prisons are on the increase from the United States to China, as ever-larger proportions of humanity find themselves behind bars. While prisons now span the world, we know little about their history in global perspective. Rather than interpreting the prison's proliferation as the predictable result of globalization, Cultures of Confinement underlines the fact that the prison was never simply imposed by colonial powers or copied by elites eager to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801446309
• ISBN13: 9780801446306
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher