Papua New Guinea's Last Place: Experiences of Constraint in a Postcolonial Prison

by Adam Reed

What kind of experience is incarceration? How should one define its constraints? The author, who conducted extensive fieldwork in a maximum-security jail in Papua New Guinea, seeks to address these questions through a vivid and sympathetic account of inmates' lives.

Prison Studies is a growing field of interest for social scientists. As one of the first ethnographic studies of a prison outside western societies and Japan, this book contributes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571816941
• ISBN13: 9781571816948
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"