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Culture of Punishment Prison, Society, and Spectacle

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ISBN-10: 081479100X

ISBN-13: 9780814791004

Edition: 2009

Authors: Michelle Brown

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List price: $64.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 10/15/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 260
Size: 5.80" wide x 8.90" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Michelle Brown is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Tennessee and Fellow at the Indiana University Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions and author of The Culture of Punishment: Prison, Society, and Spectacle .

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Notes on Becoming a Penal Spectator
Prison Theory: Engaging the Work of Punishment
Prison Iconography: Regarding the Pain of Others
Prison Tourism: The Cultural Work and Play of Punishment
Prison Portents: Guant�namo, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror
Prison Science: Of Faith and Futility
Prison Otherwise: Cultural Meanings beyond Punishment
Notes
References
Index
About the Author