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Considers how prison design has evolved over the centuries, how it has taken shape in various corners of the globe, and how it reflects the society that oversees it. This illustrated book surveys prison architecture from earliest times. It considers the architectural design and features of prisons in light of the purposes they were meant to serve.

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"Norman Johnston knows more about the history of prisons and prison architecture than anyone in the world. Forms of Constraint is a superb piece of scholarship, fascinating for laypersons and extraordinarily functional for architects and historians of penology. There is nothing like it anywhere else." Marvin E. Wolfgang, author of Collective Violence

Forms of Constraint

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    A Paperback / softback by Norman Johnston

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      Publisher: University of Illinois Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 29/12/2006
      ISBN13: 9780252074011, 978-0252074011
      ISBN10: 0252074017

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      Book Synopsis
      Considers how prison design has evolved over the centuries, how it has taken shape in various corners of the globe, and how it reflects the society that oversees it. This illustrated book surveys prison architecture from earliest times. It considers the architectural design and features of prisons in light of the purposes they were meant to serve.

      Trade Review
      "Norman Johnston knows more about the history of prisons and prison architecture than anyone in the world. Forms of Constraint is a superb piece of scholarship, fascinating for laypersons and extraordinarily functional for architects and historians of penology. There is nothing like it anywhere else." Marvin E. Wolfgang, author of Collective Violence

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