Arguing that penal institutions are social and cultural artefacts as well as techniques of crime control, this book explores how penality interacts with a variety of social forces including strategies of power, socio-economic structures and ...

In this almost documentary account of his own experience of penal servitude in Siberia, Dostoevsky describes the physical and mental suffering of the convicts, the squalor, the degradation, in relentless detail - even down to the intricate ...

Bridges the gap between critical elements of organisational theory and psychosocial issues.

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Describes the world's largest and most expensive correctional facility, offers an incisive portrait of its more than eighteen thousand inmates and the individuals who work there, and discusses the changes that have transformed the jail.

This is a sociological study of a Norwegian penal institution.

This book addresses the impact of environmental design on inmates and staff members in jails and prisons and shows how design can dramatically affect the level of stress and violence.