look at prisons and prison life

Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Law - Criminal process, Criminology, Law Enforcement, grade: 91, Ottawa University, course: Prison Community and the Deprivation of Liberty, language: English, abstract: An introductory look into the prison system following Foucault's study into the function and corrective task of the prison, and the characteristics of the disciplinary apparatus. Furthermore, this paper will compare Donald Clemmer's and Donald Cressey's view on prison life.