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Author Reed, Adam

Title Papua New Guinea's Last Place : Experiences of Constraint in a Postcolonial Prison
Published New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (208 pages)
Contents List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Prologue; Chapter 1: Dark Place; Chapter 2: Bus Stop; Chapter 3: Jeffrey's Flight; Chapter 4: Place of Men; Chapter 5: Place of God; Chapter 6: Following White Men; Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
Summary 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 to a reinterpretation of the field's scope and assumptions. It challenges notions of what is punitive about imprisonment by exploring the creat
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-193) and index
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Subject Bomana Major Central Area Correction Institution (Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea)
SUBJECT Bomana Major Central Area Correction Institution (Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea) fast
Subject Prisons -- Papua New Guinea
Prison psychology -- Papua New Guinea
Prison discipline -- Papua New Guinea
Prisoners -- Papua New Guinea -- Social conditions
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Prison discipline
Prison psychology
Prisoners -- Social conditions
Prisons
Papua New Guinea
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781782381815
1782381813