TY - BOOK ID - 85750819 TI - Papua New Guinea's last place : experiences of constraint in a postcolonial prison PY - 2006 SN - 1571816941 9781571816948 9781571815811 1782381813 PB - New York : Berghahn Books, DB - UniCat KW - Prisons KW - Prison psychology KW - Prison discipline KW - Prisoners KW - Convicts KW - Correctional institutions KW - Imprisoned persons KW - Incarcerated persons KW - Prison inmates KW - Inmates of institutions KW - Persons KW - Discipline, Prison KW - Penal discipline KW - Discipline KW - Dungeons KW - Gaols KW - Penitentiaries KW - Imprisonment KW - Prison-industrial complex KW - Psychology, Prison KW - Correctional psychology KW - Social conditions KW - Inmates KW - Psychology KW - Bomana Major Central Area Correction Institution (Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea) KW - Papua New Guinea. KW - Bomana Prison (Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea) KW - Social conditions. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85750819 AB - 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 to a reinterpretation of the field's scope and assumptions. It challenges notions of what is punitive about imprisonment by exploring the creat ER -