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Special Issue : The Beautiful Prison.
Title:
Special Issue : The Beautiful Prison.
Author:
Sarat, Austin.
ISBN:
9781783509669
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (107 pages)
Series:
Studies in Law, Politics and Society ; v.64

Studies in Law, Politics and Society
Contents:
FRONT COVER -- SPECIAL ISSUE: THE BEAUTIFUL PRISON -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- EDITORIAL BOARD -- INTRODUCTION -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- SEARCHING FOR THE BEAUTIFUL PRISON -- THE ENLIGHTENED PRISON -- HOPE VERSUS DESPAIR -- GROWTH VERSUS STASIS -- RECOGNITION OF MERIT VERSUS DEMERIT -- INDIVIDUALITY VERSUS CLASS-IFICATION -- COMMUNITY VERSUS ISOLATION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- KNOWING THAT WE ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE: A CASE FOR CRITICAL PRISON PROGRAMMING -- INTRODUCTION -- BACKGROUND OF THE EJP -- REASONABLE PERSON MODEL -- LANGUAGE PARTNERS -- THE TEACHING PARTNERS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- RETHINKING THE HUMANITIES THROUGH TEACHING THE HOLOCAUST IN PRISON -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- OF PRISONS, GARDENS, AND THE WAY OUT -- ANARCHY -- DOMINATION -- CULTIVATION -- A WAY OUT -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- WHAT BLOOMS: THE JAILHOUSE, INSIDE OUT -- NOTES -- REFERENCES.
Abstract:
In The Beautiful Prison incarcerated Americans and prison critics seek to imagine the prison as something better than a machinery of suffering. From personal testimony to theoretical meditation these writers explore and confront the practical and cultural limits the prison places on its transformation into a socially constructive institution.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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