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Society of Captives: A Study of a Maximum Security Prison - Softcover

Sykes, Gresham M.

 
9780691028149: Society of Captives: A Study of a Maximum Security Prison
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0691028141 ISBN 13: 9780691028149
Verlag: Princeton University Press, 1971

Inhaltsangabe

Gresham Sykes wrote the book at the height of the Cold War, motivated by the world's experience of fascism and communism to study the closest thing to a totalitarian system in American life: a maximum security prison. The book is remarkably short - just 150 pages - but bristles with ideas. Sykes argued that many of the psychological effects of modern prison are even more brutal than the physical cruelties of the past. The trauma of being designated one of the very worst human beings in the world left prisoners with lifelong scars. It also inspired solidarity among prisoners and fierce resistance to authorities as strategies for rejecting those who rejected them. His analysis called into question whether prisons genuinely were, as many believed, "total institutions," where every facet of life was rigidly controlled. Sykes showed that the stronger the bonds among prisoners, the more difficult it was for prison guards to run the prisons without finding ways of "accommodating" the prisoners. The book set the stage for Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish, among other works. Since it appeared in 1958, it has served society as an indispensable text in coming to terms with the nature of modern power.

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Verlag
Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1971
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0691028141
ISBN 13 
9780691028149
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
164
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