The Society of Captives: A Study of a Maximum Security Prison (Princeton Classic Editions)
by Gresham M. Sykes
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The author 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. His analysis calls into question the extent to which prisons can succeed in their attempts to control every facet of life--or whether the strong bonds between prisoners make it impossible to run a prison without finding ways of "accommodating" the prisoners.Tags
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Gresham M. Sykes is Professor of Sociology Emeritus at the University of Virginia
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- Sociology, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, History, Philosophy
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- 365.33 — Society, Government, and Culture Social problems and social services Punishment Kinds of penal institutions Institutions by degree of security
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- HV9475 .N52 .T77 — Social sciences Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminal justice administration Penology. Prisons. Corrections By region or country
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