Surviving Russian Prisons

ISBN-13: 9781138012158 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 220 str.

Laura Piacentini

Opis

What do Russian prisons look like? Who is sent to prison in Russia? How is punishment allocated and administered? This book aims to answer these and other questions, exploring how the prisons have survived the collapse of the USSR, and discussing of global penal politics.

Spis treści

Contents Introduction 1 Context of research and methodology 2 Prison labour, reform and economics: a review of the literature 3 Filling the void: Russia's new 'penal identities' 4 Barter: Russia's 'penal micro-economy' 5 Penal ideology in transition: identification in geographical spaces 6 Prison practices that test the limits of human rights norms 7 Western borrowings: how human rights have 'travelled' to Russian prisons 8 Beyond the metaphor: the phenomenon of 'failed penal societies' References Index

O autorze

Piacentini, Laura