Indefinite: doing time in jail

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'Indefinite' is an ethnographic study of life in a contemporary county jail system. Having been arrested and jailed, Michael L. Walker turned his experience into an examination of jails from the inside out, revealing the physical and emotional experience of doing time, the set of strategie...

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1. VerfasserIn: Walker, Michael L. 1952- (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Oxford University Press [2022]
In:Jahr: 2022
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Jails > Case studies > United States
Prisoners > Case studies > United States
Imprisonment > Case studies > United States
USA > Kalifornien > Untersuchungshaft > Arrest > Kurze Freiheitsstrafe
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Zusammenfassung:'Indefinite' is an ethnographic study of life in a contemporary county jail system. Having been arrested and jailed, Michael L. Walker turned his experience into an examination of jails from the inside out, revealing the physical and emotional experience of doing time, the set of strategies prisoners use to endure it, and the deputies who use race to control prisoners and the kinds of experiences prisoners had.
Beschreibung:Also issued in print: 2022. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on April 8, 2022)
Physische Details:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 267 pages)
ISBN:9780190072902
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780190072865.001.0001