Cultures of confinement: a history of the prison in africa, asia and latin america
Éditeur :
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
ISBN :
9781850658450
Date de publication :
27 avr. 2007
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Underlines that - like other institutions - prisons was never simply 'imposed' by colonial powers or 'copied' by elites eager to emulate the West, but was reinvented and transformed by a host of local factors. This work point out the acts of resistance or appropriation which altered the social practices associated with confinement.