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

, 2007
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 to a totalitarian system in American life: a maximum security prison.
Gresham M. Sykes
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The Prisoner's Dilemma and the Prisoners of the Prisoner's Dilemma

Business Ethics Quarterly, 1996
AbstractThe Prisoner's Dilemma is a popular device used by researchers to analyze such institutions as business and the modern corporation. This popularity is not deserved under a certain condition that is widespread in college education. If we, as management educators, take seriously our parts in preparing our students to participate in the ...
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Prisoners, Prison, and Religion

Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2002
SUMMARY During the twentieth century there has been much speculation by scholars in the United States about the relationship between religion and prisoners. In spite of the fact that both religion and the prison have been subjected to considerable study, we know little about religion in prison, particularly as it relates to the psychological adjustment
Todd R. Clear, Melvina Sumter
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Parents in Prison and Their Minor Children: Comparisons Between State and National Estimates

The Prison journal, 2019
To estimate the number of parents in state prisons in Minnesota, 2,242 adults completed a brief survey. More than two thirds reported having minor children. More women than men reported being a parent; over half reported living with their children before
Rebecca J. Shlafer, G. Duwe, Lauren A. Hindt   +2 more
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Discipline and punish : the birth of the prison

, 1996
In the Middle Ages there were gaols and dungeons, but punishment was for the most part a spectacle. The economic changes and growing popular dissent of the 18th century made necessary a more systematic control over the individual members of society, and ...
Michel Foucault, Alan Sheridan
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Prisons, Prison Officers and Prisoners' Families, 2021

2022
The Families – Inside Prison and Out project at the University of Strathclyde involved research with prison officers in Scotland whose roles involved working with, or related to, families of people in prison. The project ran from October 2020 – December 2021 and the research took place between April and September 2021, involving ten semi-structured ...
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Surveiller et punir: Naissance de la prison

, 1993
Peut-etre avons-nous honte aujourd'hui de nos prisons. Le XIXe siecle, lui, etait fier des forteresses qu'il construisait aux limites et parfois au cœur des villes. Ces murs, ces verrous, ces cellules figuraient toute une entreprise d'orthopedie sociale.
M. Foucault
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Miners in Prison: Workers in Prison: Political Prisoners

Journal of Law and Society, 1985
When the miners returned to work in March 1985, two things made them more bitter than they might otherwise have been. They left some seven hundred sacked men at home and eighty odd in prison. Shortly after the return, a ballot asking for a fifty pence weekly levy of all National Union of Mineworkers members tb support the sacked and imprisoned men was ...
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Children of the prison boom

, 2016
Children of the prison boom : , Children of the prison boom : , کتابخانه دیجیتال و فن آوری اطلاعات دانشگاه امام صادق(ع)
Sara Wakefield, Christopher Wildeman
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A Prison within a Prison?

Men and Masculinities, 2007
This study uses a narrative analysis to explore the masculinity narratives of male prisoners. Individual interviews were conducted with nine men aged twenty-two to forty-seven. Using a method described by Agar and Hobbs, extracts were taken from each narrative and grouped around local, global, and themal coherence.
Patti Wallace, Tony Evans
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