Description
How social pressures have shaped prisons through history
How social pressures have shaped prisons through history
About the Author
Reviews
"Norman Johnston knows more about the history of prisons and prison architecture than anyone in the world. Forms of Constraint is a superb piece of scholarship, fascinating for laypersons and extraordinarily functional for architects and historians of penology. There is nothing like it anywhere else." Marvin E. Wolfgang, author of Collective Violence
Book Information
ISBN 9780252074011
Author Norman Johnston
Format Paperback
Page Count 216
Imprint University of Illinois Press
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Dimensions(mm) 286mm * 216mm * 15mm
How social pressures have shaped prisons through history
About the Author
Norman Johnston, professor emeritus of sociology at Arcadia University, is the author of The Human Cage: A Brief History of Prison Architecture and other books.
Reviews
"Norman Johnston knows more about the history of prisons and prison architecture than anyone in the world. Forms of Constraint is a superb piece of scholarship, fascinating for laypersons and extraordinarily functional for architects and historians of penology. There is nothing like it anywhere else." Marvin E. Wolfgang, author of Collective Violence
Book Information
ISBN 9780252074011
Author Norman Johnston
Format Paperback
Page Count 216
Imprint University of Illinois Press
Publisher University of Illinois Press
Dimensions(mm) 286mm * 216mm * 15mm
