Portable Prisons by James Gacek PAPERBACK 9780228008286

Portable Prisons\nby James Gacek\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 8\u20139 working days.\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: James Gacek\nTitle: Portable Prisons\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Crime and criminology\nPublisher: McGill-Queen's University Press\nPublication year: 2022\nISBN-13: 9780228008286\nISBN-10: 022800828X\nRRP: \u00A329.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nPortable Prisons is an exploration of the electronic monitoring of offenders based on an ethnographic case study from Scotland. Through interviews and observations, Gacek demonstrates this technology is representative of the carceral state\u2019s overreaching punitive capabilities, rejecting the idea that \u201Csoft\u201D punishment is related to decarceration.\n\nPortable Prisons is an exploration of.