List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Prologue; Chapter 1: Dark Place; Chapter 2: Bus Stop; Chapter 3: Jeffrey's Flight; Chapter 4: Place of Men; Chapter 5: Place of God; Chapter 6: Following White Men; Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
Summary
What kind of experience is incarceration? How should one define its constraints? The author, who conducted extensive fieldwork in a maximum-security jail in Papua New Guinea, seeks to address these questions through a vivid and sympathetic account of inmates' lives. Prison Studies is a growing field of interest for social scientists. As one of the first ethnographic studies of a prison outside western societies and Japan, this book contributes to a reinterpretation of the field's scope and assumptions. It challenges notions of what is punitive about imprisonment by exploring the creat
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-193) and index