The Society of Captives : : A Study of a Maximum Security Prison / / Gresham M. Sykes.
The Society of Captives, first published in 1958, is a classic of modern criminology and one of the most important books ever written about prison.Gresham Sykes 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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction to the Princeton Classic Edition
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter One: The Prison and Its Setting
- Chapter Two: The Regime of the Custodians
- Chapter Three: The Defects of Total Power
- Chapter Four: The Pains of Imprisonment
- Chapter Five: Argot Roles
- Chapter Six: Crisis and Equilibrium
- Chapter Seven: A Postscript for Reformers
- Epilogue: The Structural-Functional Perspective on Imprisonment
- Appendix A: A Note on Method
- Appendix B: The Routine of Imprisonment
- Index