The Cultural Prison: Discourse, Prisoners, and Punishment

by John M. Sloop

Book Overview

The incarcerated in America's cultural imagination.

The Cultural Prison brings a new dimension to the study of prisoners and punishment by focusing on how the punishment of American offenders is represented and shaped in the mass media through public arguments. The study is based on an analysis of 642 articles collected by the author from American popular journals and magazines, as well as newspaper accounts, films, and public...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817308229
• ISBN13: 9780817308223
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"