Prison Worlds: An Ethnography of the Carceral Condition

by Didier Fassin

Book Overview

The prison is a recent invention, hardly more than two centuries old, yet it has become the universal system of punishment. How can we understand the place that the correctional system occupies in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509507558
• ISBN13: 9781509507559
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"