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Prisons, it seems, are on the increase everywhere, from democratic Britain to communist China, as ever larger proportions of humanity find themselves behind bars. While prisons now span the world, we know little about their history in global perspective. Rather than interpreting the prison everywhere as the predictable result of 'globalisation', "Cultures of Confinement" underlines that - like all institutions - it was never simply 'imposed' by colonial powers or 'copied' by elites eager to emulate the West, but was reinvented and transformed by a host of local factors, its success being dependent on its very flexibility. Complex cultural negotiations took place in encounters between different parts of the world, and rather than assigning a passive role to Latin America, Asia and Africa, the authors of this book point out the acts of resistance or appropriation which altered the social practices associated with confinement. The prison, in short, was understood in culturally specific ways and reinvented in a variety of local contexts examined here for the first time in global perspective.

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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Society & social sciences Social services & welfare, criminology Crime & criminology

• Plný název: Cultures of Confinement
• Podnázev: A History of the Prison in Africa, Asia and Latin America
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Pevná
• Počet stran: 336
• EAN: 9781850658450
• ISBN: 1850658455
• ID: 05108524
• Nakladatelství: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
• Hmotnost: 706 g
• Rozměry: 246 × 168 × 28 mm
• Datum vydání: 27. April 2007

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