Power,discourse and resistance : an analysis of the Strangeways prison riot

This thesis provides a detailed sociological analysis of the prison riot at Strangeways in April 1990. It is argued that previous explanations of prison unrest have, in the main, paid insufficient attention to fundamental issues in social theory, which concern specifying how such matters as human ag...

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Main Author: Carrabine, Eamonn
Published: University of Salford 1998
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.244860