TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sykes,Gresham M.
AU  - Western,Bruce
TI  - The Society of Captives: A Study of a Maximum Security Prison 
SN  - 9781400828272
AV  - HV9475.N52 T77 2007
U1  - 365.33 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Prison administration
KW  - New Jersey
KW  - History
KW  - Prisoners
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Prisons
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Bettelheim, Bruno
KW  - Driscoll, Alfred E
KW  - East, Norwood
KW  - Fleisher, Mark
KW  - Irwin, John
KW  - Jacobs, James
KW  - Language and Society (Lewis)
KW  - McKorkle, Lloyd
KW  - Messinger, Sheldon L
KW  - National Research Council
KW  - Ohlin, Lloyd
KW  - Rhodes, Lorna
KW  - Strong, S. A
KW  - Useem, Bert
KW  - ball busters
KW  - center men
KW  - custodians
KW  - escape artists
KW  - gorillas
KW  - guards
KW  - hipsters
KW  - incarceration
KW  - merchants
KW  - penal labor
KW  - penology
KW  - prisons
KW  - quantification
KW  - real men
KW  - social groups
KW  - sociology
KW  - swag
KW  - toughs
KW  - violence
KW  - weaklings
KW  - wolves
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Introduction to the Princeton Classic Edition --; Preface --; Introduction --; Chapter One: The Prison and Its Setting --; Chapter Two: The Regime of the Custodians --; Chapter Three: The Defects of Total Power --; Chapter Four: The Pains of Imprisonment --; Chapter Five: Argot Roles --; Chapter Six: Crisis and Equilibrium --; Chapter Seven: A Postscript for Reformers --; Epilogue: The Structural-Functional Perspective on Imprisonment --; Appendix A: A Note on Method --; Appendix B: The Routine of Imprisonment --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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 control every facet of life--or whether the strong bonds between prisoners make it impossible to run a prison without finding ways of "accommodating" the prisoners.Re-released now with a new introduction by Bruce Western and a new epilogue by the author, The Society of Captives will continue to serve as an indispensable text for coming to terms with the nature of modern power
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