Power and pain in the modern prison : the society of captives revisited /
edited by Ben Crewe, Andrew Goldsmith, and Mark Halsey.
- First edition.
- 1 online resource (xxxiv, 373 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).
- Clarendon studies in criminology Oxford scholarship online .
- Clarendon studies in criminology. Oxford scholarship online. .
This edition also issued in print: 2022.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'Power and Pain in the Modern Prison' discusses such matters as the pains of imprisonment, penal order, staff-prisoner relationships and the everyday world of the prison, drawing on and critiquing Sykes's theories and insights, and placing them in their historic and contemporary context.