My Wish Lists Login / Join

Surviving Russian Prisons - Laura Piacentini

Surviving Russian Prisons

By: Laura Piacentini

eBook | 6 December 2012 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

ePUB
241 Pages

eBook

$86.99

or 4 interest-free payments of $21.75 with

or

Instant Digital Delivery to your Booktopia Reader App

What do Russian prisons look like? Who is sent to prison in Russia? How is punishment allocated and administered? This pioneering book aims to answer these and other questions by embarking on a journey that begins by exploring how the prisons have survived the collapse of the USSR, and ends with a discussion of global penal politics. It is the first book to have been written in English on penal practices in the contemporary Russian prison system. Surviving Russian Prisons focuses in particular on the reality of work and labour within Russian prisons, exploring its changing function. From being for much of the twentieth century a major activity as well as an ideological justification for prison regimes, its main function now has been to enable prisoners to survive through participating in a barter economy. In exploring the microworlds of the Russian prison this book at the same time presents new evidence and offers fresh insight into how prisons are governed in societies undergoing turbulent social and political transformation; it explores how current practices in relation to prisoners' work comply with international regulations designed to promote humane containment and positive custody; and debates the nature of knowledge on penal discourse in transitional states.

on

You Can Find This eBook In

Non-Fiction Education Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Interdisciplinary Studies Regional Studies Law Laws of Specific Jurisdictions Criminal Law & Procedure Criminal Procedure Sentencing & Punishment Social Services & Welfare Crime & Criminology

Penology & Punishment Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning Geography Regional Geography Sociology & Anthropology Society & Culture Social Groups

More in Crime & Criminology

Bloody Crimes : The Chase For Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincon's Corpse - James L. Swanson

eBOOK

Bloody Crimes

The Chase For Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincon's Corpse

eBook

RRP $43.99

$35.99

18%
OFF

Girls Like Us : Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not for Sale, an Activist Finds Her Calling and Heals Herself - Rachel Lloyd

eBOOK

Girls Like Us

Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not for Sale, an Activist Finds Her Calling and Heals Herself

eBook

RRP $37.39

$29.99

20%
OFF

Game Over : The Rise and Transformation of a Harlem Hustler - Azie Faison

eBOOK

Game Over

The Rise and Transformation of a Harlem Hustler

eBook

RRP $31.89

$25.99

19%
OFF

A Deadly Game : The Untold Story of the Scott Peterson Investigation - Catherine Crier

eBOOK

A Deadly Game

The Untold Story of the Scott Peterson Investigation

eBook

RRP $31.89

$25.99

19%
OFF

Cooked : From Streets to the Stove, From Cocaine to Foie Gras - Jeff Henderson

eBOOK

Cooked

From Streets to the Stove, From Cocaine to Foie Gras

eBook

RRP $27.49

$21.99

20%
OFF

Bind, Torture, Kill : The Inside Story of BTK, the Serial Killer Next Door - Roy Wenzl

eBOOK

Bind, Torture, Kill

The Inside Story of BTK, the Serial Killer Next Door

eBook

RRP $28.59

$22.99

20%
OFF

Blood Brother : 33 Reasons My Brother Scott Peterson Is Guilty - Anne Bird

eBOOK

Blood Brother

33 Reasons My Brother Scott Peterson Is Guilty

eBook

RRP $39.59

$31.99

19%
OFF

Blood Relation - Eric Konigsberg

eBOOK

Blood Relation

eBook

RRP $28.59

$22.99

20%
OFF

Seduced by Madness : The True Story of the Susan Polk Murder Case - Carol Pogash

eBOOK

Seduced by Madness

The True Story of the Susan Polk Murder Case

eBook

RRP $24.19

$19.99

17%
OFF

Perfect Murder, Perfect Town : The Uncensored Story of the JonBenet Murder and the Grand Jury's Search for the Truth - Lawrence Schiller

eBOOK

Perfect Murder, Perfect Town

The Uncensored Story of the JonBenet Murder and the Grand Jury's Search for the Truth

eBook

RRP $28.59

$22.99

20%
OFF

Bloody Times : The Funeral of Abraham Lincoln and the Manhunt for Jefferson Davis - James L. Swanson

eBOOK

Bloody Times

The Funeral of Abraham Lincoln and the Manhunt for Jefferson Davis

eBook

RRP $18.69

$14.99

20%
OFF

Newtown : An American Tragedy - Matthew Lysiak

eBOOK

Newtown

An American Tragedy

eBook

RRP $28.59

$22.99

20%
OFF

Dead Center : Behind the Scenes at the World's Largest Medical Examiner's Office - Shiya Ribowsky

eBOOK

Dead Center

Behind the Scenes at the World's Largest Medical Examiner's Office

eBook

RRP $37.39

$29.99

20%
OFF

Empty Promises And Other True Cases : Anne Rule's Crime Files : Volume 7 - Ann Rule

eBOOK

Empty Promises And Other True Cases

Anne Rule's Crime Files : Volume 7

eBook

RRP $28.59

$22.99

20%
OFF

Confederacy of Silence : A True Tale of the New Old South - Richard Rubin

eBOOK

Confederacy of Silence

A True Tale of the New Old South

eBook

$20.99

Dying to Cross : The Worst Immigrant Tragedy in American History - Jorge Ramos

eBOOK

Dying to Cross

The Worst Immigrant Tragedy in American History

eBook

$9.99

Out of Bounds : Inside the NBA's Culture of Rape, Violence, & Crime - Jeff Benedict

eBOOK

Out of Bounds

Inside the NBA's Culture of Rape, Violence, & Crime

eBook

RRP $28.59

$22.99

20%
OFF

Redbone : The Millionaire and the Gold Digger - Ron Stodghill

eBOOK

Redbone

The Millionaire and the Gold Digger

eBook

RRP $24.19

$19.99

17%
OFF

Manhunt : The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer - James L. Swanson

eBOOK

Manhunt

The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer

eBook

$26.99

Rat Bastards : The Life and Times of South Boston's Most Honorable Irish Mobster, A Memoir - John Red Shea

eBOOK

Rat Bastards

The Life and Times of South Boston's Most Honorable Irish Mobster, A Memoir

eBook

RRP $31.89

$25.99

19%
OFF

Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy : The Secret World of Corporate Espionage - Eamon Javers

eBOOK

Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy

The Secret World of Corporate Espionage

eBook

RRP $27.49

$21.99

20%
OFF

Death & Justice - Mark Fuhrman

eBOOK

Death & Justice

eBook

RRP $28.59

$22.99

20%
OFF

In Cold Blood - Part 1 of 3 : A Brother's Sworn Vengeance - Julie Shaw

eBOOK

In Cold Blood - Part 1 of 3

A Brother's Sworn Vengeance

eBook

$0.99

But I Trusted You : Ann Rule's Crime Files : Volume 14 - Ann Rule

eBOOK

But I Trusted You

Ann Rule's Crime Files : Volume 14

eBook

RRP $37.39

$29.99

20%
OFF