TY - BOOK ID - 65286789 TI - Special issue. PY - 2014 SN - 1784415677 1784415685 1322639744 9781784415679 1306876036 9781306876032 9781783509669 178350966X 9781783509676 1783509678 9781784415686 9781784415686 PB - Bingley, England : Emerald, DB - UniCat KW - Sociological jurisprudence. KW - Law KW - Law and politics KW - Law and society KW - Society and law KW - Sociology of law KW - Jurisprudence KW - Sociology KW - Law and the social sciences KW - Political aspects. KW - Prisons KW - Imprisonment KW - Criminology. Victimology KW - Politics KW - Social Science KW - Prisons. KW - Law & society. KW - Penology & punishment. KW - Criminology. KW - Human rights & civil liberties law. KW - General. KW - Political sociology. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:65286789 AB - In The beautiful prison incarcerated Americans and prison critics seek to imagine the prison as something better than a machinery of suffering. From personal testimony to theoretical meditation these writers explore and confront the practical and cultural limits the prison places on its transformation into a socially constructive institution. ER -