Prison Worlds: An Ethnography of the Carceral  by Didier Fassin PAPERBACK

Prison Worlds: An Ethnography of the Carceral by Didier Fassin PAPERBACK

Polity Press

Prison Worlds\n\nAn Ethnography of the Carceral Condition\n\nDidier Fassin (Author)\n\n9781509507559, Polity Press\n\nPaperback / softback, published 14 October 2016\n\n416 pages\n22.6 x 15.5 x 3.3 cm, 0.612 kg\n\n\""In his penetrating field study, Didier Fassin introduces English-speaking readers to the social process of incarceration in France, from the courtroom to the prison. Fassin shows how a poor and largely immigrant population becomes entangled in a criminal justice system whose everyday operation reflects and reinforces the contours of social and economic inequality. Remarkable in its range and empirical detail, this is important reading for students of crime, law, and urban life.\""\n Bruce Western, Harvard University\n\n \""Prison Worlds is simply extraordinary. It is at once a philosophy and history of modern prisons and punishment, an ethnography of French male prisoners, a racial and socio-economic theory of incarceration, and a searching meditation on world that locks up]

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