240 Pages
by
Willan
240 Pages
by
Willan
241 Pages
by
Willan
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What do Russian prisons look like? Who is sent to prison in Russia? How is punishment allocated and administered? This pioneering book aims to answer these and other questions by embarking on a journey that begins by exploring how the prisons have survived the collapse of the USSR, and ends with a discussion of global penal politics. It is the first book to have been written in English on penal... Read more
Contents Introduction 1 Context of research and methodology 2 Prison labour, reform and economics: a review of the literature 3 Filling the void: Russia's new 'penal identities' 4 Barter: Russia's 'penal micro-economy' 5 Penal ideology in transition: identification in geographical spaces 6 Prison practices that test the limits of human rights norms 7 Western borrowings: how human rights have 'travelled' to Russian prisons 8 Beyond the metaphor: the phenomenon of 'failed penal societies' References Index
Biography
Piacentini, Laura






