Papua New Guinea's Last Place: Experiences of Constraint in a Postcolonial Prison

by Adam Reed

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1571816941

ISBN13:9781571816948

Release Date:September 2004

Publisher:Berghahn Books

Length:208 Pages

Weight:0.55 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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