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Author: D. Drake
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.20cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.420kg
ISBN: 9780230282933
ISBN 10: 0230282938
Pages: 220
Publication Date: 25 July 2012
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Prisons, Punishment and the Pursuit of Security is a remarkable achievement. Confidently embracing an eclectic mix of the most exciting and influential scholarship of recent years, it is also a bold, brave and affecting empirical study of the very 'deepest' end of imprisonment at a time when security has risen to a level of prominence that eclipses every other consideration, including what it means to be human in such environments. With this study of all five men's maximum-security prisons in England, Deborah Drake has given us a beautifully written, impressively detailed and authoritative yet immensely readable book, which will undoubtedly make an enduring contribution to prison scholarship. Prisons, Punishment and the Pursuit of Security should reassure all those who have expressed concerns about the health of prison ethnography that reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated. This book already feels like a 'classic'. - Yvonne Jewkes, Professor of Criminology, University of Leicester 'This is an important contribution to critical criminology, prison ethnography, and the senselessness associated with pursuing security without care' - LSE Review of Books
Prisons, Punishment and the Pursuit of Security is a remarkable achievement. Confidently embracing an eclectic mix of the most exciting and influential scholarship of recent years, it is also a bold, brave and affecting empirical study of the very 'deepest' end of imprisonment at a time when security has risen to a level of prominence that eclipses every other consideration, including what it means to be human in such environments. With this study of all five men's maximum-security prisons in England, Deborah Drake has given us a beautifully written, impressively detailed and authoritative yet immensely readable book, which will undoubtedly make an enduring contribution to prison scholarship. Prisons, Punishment and the Pursuit of Security should reassure all those who have expressed concerns about the health of prison ethnography that reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated. This book already feels like a 'classic'. Yvonne Jewkes, Professor of Criminology, University of Leicester
Author Information
Deborah Drake is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the Open University, UK.
