
Papua New Guinea's Last Place
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 wes...
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 wes...