'This is among the handful of prison books - they include George Jackson's Soledad Brother andBB Michael Ignatieff's A Just Measure of Pain - which moves and informs. The sociology of prison riots,MM the causes of outbreak and the nature of the reactions, are subjects which have been largely ignored and need to be understood by those who either study criminal justice or work in the system.' - His Honour Judge Stephen Tumin This challenging book is essential reading for everyone with an interest in penal policy and practice. It uses extensive documentary evidence to demonstrate that prison riots in Britain and the US have shifted from traditional riots in which prisoners made no specific demands, to consciousness-raising riots where they often challenged the dominant penal philosophy of rehabilitation. The book illustrates the violent nature both of many prison riots and of responses to them by the authorities. It concludes that the challenge to all involved in debates about penal policy and practice is to project a future for prisons which goes beyond the patterns of confrontation which have been so much a feature of prison riots in the past.
- ISBN10 0333625080
- ISBN13 9780333625088
- Publish Date 16 September 1994 (first published 1 January 1992)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 June 1997
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 304
- Language English