RUSSIAN PRISON SYSTEM
Laurie Taylor speaks to Dr Laura Piacentini about her new research on imprisonment in Russia.
Piacentini's field work took her to prison colonies where she lived, sharing vodka with the prison officers and listening to recitations of Alexander Pushkin's poetry. There, she discovered that contrary to expectations, the Russian penal system allowed prisoners certain freedoms denied to them in British jails.
WESTERN IMPRISONMENT
In light of this new research, Laurie Taylor questions what the West can learn from Russian styles of imprisonment. Nils Christie, Professor of Criminology at the University of Oslo, discusses the reality of work and prison labour, and the function prisons serve in the community.
Additional information:
Dr Laura Piacentini
Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Stirling
Surviving Russian Prisons, Punishment, Economy and Politics in Transition
Publisher: Willan Publishing
ISBN 1843921030
Professor Nils Christie
Professor of Criminology at the University of Oslo
A Suitable Amount of Crime
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ISBN 0415336112
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ISBN 0415234875
Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps
Anne Applebaum
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 0140283102
The System of Objects
Jean Baudrillard, James Benedict (Translator)
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN 185984068X
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