Surviving Russian Prisons

by Laura Piacentini

What do Russian prisons look like? Who is sent to prison in Russia? How is punishment allocated and administered? This pioneering book aims to answer these and other questions by embarking on a journey that begins by exploring how the prisons have survived the collapse of the USSR, and ends with a discussion of global penal politics. It is the first book to have been written in English on penal practices in the contemporary Russian prison system...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843921030
• ISBN13: 9781843921035
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Willan Publishing (UK)
• Length: 240 Pages