The Politics of the Prison and the Prisoner

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Drawing on a range of contemporary and historical topics and including cases from the UK, US and Russia, this book examines the prison as a political institution and as a site of both politicization and political protest. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The prisoner as a zoon politikon, 2. Political protest in prison, 3. The quest for citizenship in prison, 4. Losing citizenship in prison, 5. Discovering politics in prison, 6. The treatment of political prisoners, 7. Prisoners as a political problem, Bibliography, Index