What Are Prisons For? (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781529226898)

What does a good prison look like? More than eleven million people are currently locked up in prisons across the world, but does that mean that prison actually works? The answer usually depends on what people believe and feel about crime, punishment and what happens inside prisons. The deep social and personal impact of prisons demands that we try to search for a better understanding of the evidence and ideas that have made prisons so ubiquitous. Hindpal Singh Bhui, with 25 years' experience of visiting and working in prisons worldwide, argues that we need to look at who is sent there and why, to disentangle reality from ideology and myth. Introducing the competing histories of prisons and allowing the voices of prisoners, prison staff and victims to be heard, he asks whether there is a better way to achieve what society wants from its prisons.

Author: Hindpal Singh Bhui
ISBN-10: 1529226899
ISBN-13: 9781529226898
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/26/2024
Pages: 182
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.42d