Cultures of Confinement : a History of the Prison in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Prisons are on the increase from the United States to China, as ever-larger proportions of humanity find themselves behind bars. While prisons now span the world, we know little about their history in global perspective. Rather than interpreting the prison's proliferation as the predictable res...

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Main Author: Dikötter, Frank
Other Authors: Brown, Ian
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018
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