Book Specs
Binding
UK-Trade Paper
Publisher
Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press
Published on
Oct 3, 1991
Edition
st Edition
Dimensions
6.14x0.73x9.21 Inches
Weight
1.10 Pounds
About the Book
* Winner of the 1991 Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Sociological Association* Winner of the Outstanding Scholarship Award of the Crime and Delinquency Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, USAThe first comprehensive account of the role of punishment in modern society, this book buils upon the work of Durkheim, Foucault, and others, and provides a fascinating interpretation of this complex social institution, showing how penal institutions interact with strategies of power,socio-economic structures, and cultural sensibilities.