Prisons under protest
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Prisons under protest
（Crime, justice, and social policy）
Open University Press, 1991
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In April 1990 a destructive protest took place in Strangeways Prison in Manchester, which excited much emotive media coverage. According to the authors, this outburst of rebellion represented only the culmination of many years of protest in Britain. This book analyzes the causes of prison protest, using Peterhead as its main case-study.
Table of Contents
- Long-term imprisonment in Scotland - the case of Peterhead
- inside the machine
- the violent institution
- discipline, punishment and the maintenance of order
- discipline, freedom and outside contact
- media construction of prison protest
- the future of long-term imprisonment in the United Kingdom.
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