David Skarbek (Bücher)

David Skarbek Bücher

Dieser Autor untersucht die Entstehung und Funktionsweise informeller Institutionen, die staatliche Strukturen ersetzen. Seine Arbeit konzentriert sich darauf, wie Menschen Eigentumsrechte definieren und durchsetzen und wie sie in Abwesenheit starker, effektiver Regierungsführung Handel treiben. Aufbauend auf seinem akademischen Hintergrund erforscht er die grundlegende Frage, wer das Recht für jene schafft, die außerhalb der etablierten Ordnung stehen. Seine Forschung beleuchtet die komplexe Dynamik der sozialen Ordnung jenseits formeller Rechtssysteme.

The Puzzle of Prison Order

240 Seiten
9 Lesestunden

4,1(38)Abgeben

Many people think prisons are all the same-rows of cells filled with violent men who officials rule with an iron fist. Yet, life behind bars varies in incredible ways. In some facilities, prison officials govern with care and attention to prisoners' needs. In others, officials have remarkably little influence on the everyday life of prisoners, sometimes not even providing necessities like food and clean water. Why does prison social order around the world look so remarkably different? In The Puzzle of Prison Order, David Skarbek develops a theory of why prisons and prison life vary so much. He finds that how they're governed-sometimes by the state, and sometimes by the prisoners-matters the most. He investigates life in a wide array of prisons-in Brazil, Bolivia, Norway, a prisoner of war camp, England and Wales, women's prisons in California, and a gay and transgender housing unit in the Los Angeles County Jail-to understand the hierarchy of life on the inside. Drawing on economics and a vast empirical literature on legal systems, Skarbek offers a framework to not only understand why life on the inside varies in such fascinating and novel ways, but also how social order evolves and takes root behind bars.