RT Book
T1 What are prisons for?
T2 What is it for? series
A1 Bhui, Hindpal Singh
LA English
PP Bristol, UK
PB Bristol University Press
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/189227390X
AB "What does a good prison look like? More than eleven million people are currently locked up in prisons across the world, but does that mean that prison actually works? The answer usually depends on what people believe and feel about crime, punishment and what happens inside prisons. The deep social and personal impact of prisons demands that we try to search for a better understanding of the evidence and ideas that have made prisons so ubiquitous. Hindpal Singh Bhui, with 25 years' experience of visiting and working in prisons worldwide, argues that we need to look at who is sent there and why, to disentangle reality from ideology and myth. Introducing the competing histories of prisons and allowing the voices of prisoners, prison staff and victims to be heard, he asks whether there is a better way to achieve what society wants from its prisons." --
NO "This book contains descriptions of violence, abuse, and racism that readers may find distressing." --Title page verso
NO Includes bibliographical references (page 139-161) and index
CN HV8665
SN 9781529226898
K1 Prisons : History
K1 Imprisonment : History
K1 Alternatives to imprisonment
K1 Criminals : Rehabilitation
K1 Criminal justice, Administration of
K1 Prisons - Histoire
K1 Emprisonnement - Histoire
K1 Emprisonnement - Alternative
K1 Réhabilitation
K1 Strafvollzug : Justizvollzugsanstalt : Justizvollzugsbeamter : Strafgefangener : Verbrechensopfer : Geschichte