Prison Worlds: An Ethnography of the Carceral Condition
Didier Fassin
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Paperback. The prison is a recent invention, hardly more than two centuries old, yet it has become the universal system of punishment. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: JKVP1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 230 x 32. Weight in Grams: 614.
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 contemporary societies? What are the experiences of those who are incarcerated as well as those who work there? To answer these questions, Didier Fassin conducted a four-year-long study in a French short-stay prison, following inmates from their trial to their release. He shows how the widespread use of imprisonment has reinforced social and racial inequalities and how advances in civil rights clash with the rationales and practices ... Read more
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 contemporary societies? What are the experiences of those who are incarcerated as well as those who work there? To answer these questions, Didier Fassin conducted a four-year-long study in a French short-stay prison, following inmates from their trial to their release. He shows how the widespread use of imprisonment has reinforced social and racial inequalities and how advances in civil rights clash with the rationales and practices ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Polity Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781509507559
SKU
V9781509507559
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99-1
About Didier Fassin
Didier Fassin, born in 1955, is a French anthropologist and sociologist. He is currently the James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and holds a Direction of Studies in Political and Moral Anthropology at the cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
Reviews for Prison Worlds: An Ethnography of the Carceral Condition
In his penetrating field study, Didier Fassin introduces English-speaking readers to the social process of incarceration in France, from the courtroom to the prison. Fassin shows how a poor and largely immigrant population becomes entangled in a criminal justice system whose everyday operation reflects and reinforces the contours of social and economic inequality. Remarkable in its range and empirical detail, ... Read more