TY - BOOK ID - 136396063 TI - The Society of Captives : A Study of a Maximum Security Prison PY - 2007 SN - 0691130647 9780691130644 PB - Princeton : Princeton University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Prison administration KW - Prisoners KW - Prisons KW - History KW - State Prison, Trenton (N.J.) KW - Prisonniers KW - Administration KW - Histoire. KW - History. KW - Geschichte 1958. KW - New Jersey. KW - African Americans. KW - Bettelheim, Bruno. KW - Driscoll, Alfred E. KW - East, Norwood. KW - Fleisher, Mark. KW - Irwin, John. KW - Jacobs, James. KW - Language and Society (Lewis). KW - McKorkle, Lloyd. KW - Messinger, Sheldon L. KW - National Research Council. KW - Ohlin, Lloyd. KW - Rhodes, Lorna. KW - Strong, S. A. KW - Useem, Bert. KW - ball busters. KW - center men. KW - custodians. KW - escape artists. KW - gorillas. KW - guards. KW - hipsters. KW - incarceration. KW - merchants. KW - penal labor. KW - penology. KW - prisons. KW - quantification. KW - real men. KW - social groups. KW - sociology. KW - swag. KW - toughs. KW - violence. KW - weaklings. KW - wolves. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136396063 AB - The author wrote the book at the height of the Cold War, motivated by the world's experience of fascism and communism to study the closest thing to a totalitarian system in American life : a maximum security prison. His analysis calls into question the extent to which prisons can succeed in their attempts to control every facet of life--or whether the strong bonds between prisoners make it impossible to run a prison without finding ways of "accommodating" the prisoners. ER -