Special issue. The beautiful prison
Title:
Special issue. The beautiful prison
Author:
Sarat, Austin.
ISBN:
9781783509669
Publication Information:
Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2014.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (x, 96 p.) : ill.
Series:
Studies in law, politics, and society, v. 64
Studies in law, politics, and society ; v. 64.
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
Introduction / Doran Larson -- Searching for the beautiful prison / Kenneth Hartman -- The enlightened prison / Drew Leder -- Knowing that we are making a difference : a case for critical prison programming / Rebecca Ginsburg -- Rethinking the humanities through teaching the holocaust in prison / Anke Pinkert -- Of prisons, gardens, and the way out / Michelle Brown -- What blooms: the jailhouse, inside out / Chuck Jackson.
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 Access:
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=1059-4337&volume=64