Special issue. The beautiful prison

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Sarat, Austin
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2014.
• Σειρά: Studies in law, politics, and society ; v. 64.
• Θέματα: Social Science > Criminology.; Prisons.; Law & society.; Penology & punishment.; Prisons > United States.; Imprisonment > United States.

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 transformat...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.