Society of Captives: A Study of a Maximum Security Prison by Gresham M. Sykes

Society of Captives: A Study of a Maximum Security Prison

Gresham M. Sykes

164 pages 1958

2 editions

nonfiction sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Gresham Sykes 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. The book is remarkably short-...

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