Description: Puzzle of Prison Order : Why Life Behind Bars Varies Around the World, Hardcover by Skarbek, David, ISBN 0190672498, ISBN-13 9780190672492, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Many people think prisons are all the same-rows of cells filled with violent men who officials rule with an iron fist. Yet, life behind bars varies in incredible ways. In some facilities, prison officials govern with care and attention to prisoners needs. In others, officials have remarkably
little influence on the everyday life of prisoners, sometimes not even providing necessities like food and clean water. Why does prison social order around the world look so remarkably different? In The Puzzle of Prison Order, David Skarbek develops a theory of why prisons and prison life vary so
much. He finds that how theyre governed-sometimes by the state, and sometimes by the prisoners-matters the most. He investigates life in a wide array of prisons-in Brazil, Bolivia, Norway, a prisoner of war camp, England and Wales, womens prisons in California, and a gay and transgender housing
unit in the Los Angeles County Jail-to understand the hierarchy of life on the inside. Drawing on economics and a vast empirical literature on legal systems, Skarbek offers a framework to not only understand why life on the inside varies in such fascinating and novel ways, but also how social order
evolves and takes root behind bars.
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Book Title: Puzzle of Prison Order : Why Life Behind Bars Varies Around the W
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Puzzle of Prison Order : Why Life Behind Bars Varies Around the World
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Item Height: 0.7 in
Subject: Sociology / General, General
Publication Year: 2020
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14.1 Oz
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science
Item Length: 6.3 in
Author: David Skarbek
Item Width: 9.5 in
Format: Hardcover
