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This book is designed to acquaint students with some of the main issues associated with the emergence and development of the modern prison. It draws on a range of sociological theorising in order to analyse the organisation and the functioning of the prison. It examines the conditions for the expansion of the prison and explores the possibilities for limiting prison use through the development of alternatives to custody. In particular, it looks in some detail at the relation between imprisonment and class, age, gender and ...

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Doing Time: An Introduction to the Sociology of Imprisonment 2009, Palgrave MacMillan, London

ISBN-13: 9780230235526

2nd 2009 edition

Trade paperback

Doing Time: An Introduction to the Sociology of Imprisonment 2009, Palgrave MacMillan, London

ISBN-13: 9780230235519

2nd 2009 edition

Hardcover

Doing Time: An Introduction to the Sociology of Imprisonment 1999, Palgrave MacMillan, London

ISBN-13: 9780333752319

1999 edition

Trade paperback

Doing Time: An Introduction to the Sociology of Imprisonment 1999, Palgrave MacMillan, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780312222390

Hardcover

Doing Time: An Introduction to the Sociology of Imprisonment 1999, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

ISBN-13: 9780333752302

Hardcover