[PDF.29yp] The Society of Captives: A Study of a Maximum Security Prison (Princeton Classic Editions)

The Society of Captives: A Study of a Maximum Security Prison (Princeton Classic Editions)

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 | Princeton University Press

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Beautifully written|By Mapache|Beautiful, gorgeous, clear sociological writing. FEELS like a classic. Makes you feel nostalgic for a moment in the social sciences when people just theorized all kinds of high-level things about power and humanity without any apparent self-consciousness or "Limits of This Study" notes--and made you believe them.

Also a must-read for an| |Praise for Princeton's original edition: "[A] remarkable study by a scrupulously honest, non-captive observer of the real meaning of captivity."--C. H. Rolph, New Statesman

"Sykes's perspective simultaneously on all parties in the pris

The Society of Captives, first published in 1958, is a classic of modern criminology and one of the most important books ever written about prison.

Gresham Sykes wrote the book at the height of the Cold War, motivated by the world's experience of fascism and communism to study the closest thing to a totalitarian system in American life: a maximum security prison. His analysis calls into question the extent to which prisons can succeed in their attempts to...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.The Society of Captives: A Study of a Maximum Security Prison (Princeton Classic Editions)   |  Gresham M. Sykes.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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