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The Puzzle of Prison Order

Why Life Behind Bars Varies Around the World

Skarbek, David (Associate Professor of Political Science, Associate Professor of Political Science, Brown University)

The Puzzle of Prison Order

The Puzzle of Prison Order

Why Life Behind Bars Varies Around the World

The Puzzle of Prison Order

 

Many people believe that when you go to prison, prison staff will keep you safe and that if others prisoners have power, they'll use it against you. It turns out that neither assumption is true. In many prisons, staff have little control over how safe and orderly a prison feels.


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Beschrijving The Puzzle of Prison Order

Many people think prisons are all the same-rows of cells filled with violent men who officials rule with an iron fist. Yet, life behind bars varies in incredible ways. In some facilities, prison officials govern with care and attention to prisoners' needs. In others, officials have remarkably little influence on the everyday life of prisoners, sometimes not even providing necessities like food and clean water. Why does prison social order around the world look so remarkably different? In The Puzzle of Prison Order, David Skarbek develops a theory of why prisons and prison life vary so much. He finds that how they're governed-sometimes by the state, and sometimes by the prisoners-matters the most. He investigates life in a wide array of prisons-in Brazil, Bolivia, Norway, a prisoner of war camp, England and Wales, women's prisons in California, and a gay and transgender housing unit in the Los Angeles County Jail-to understand the hierarchy of life on the inside. Drawing on economics and a vast empirical literature on legal systems, Skarbek offers a framework to not only understand why life on the inside varies in such fascinating and novel ways, but also how social order evolves and takes root behind bars.


ISBN
9780190672508
Pagina's
192
Verschenen
NUR
754
Druk
1
Uitvoering
Paperback / softback
Taal
Engels
Uitgever
OUP USA

Politicologie