Prisons, Punishment and the Pursuit of Security

Download or read book Prisons, Punishment and the Pursuit of Security written by D. Drake and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-07-25 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on research in men's long-term, maximum-security prisons, this book examines three interconnected problems: the tendency of the prison to obscure other social problems and conceal its own failings, the pursuit of greater levels of human security through repressive and violent means and the persistence of the belief in the problem of 'evil'.