The Society of Captives : A Study of a Maximum Security Prison.

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 the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sykes, Gresham M.
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors: Western, Bruce
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2007.
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