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By Michael Welch

ISBN-10: 0520286154

ISBN-13: 9780520286153

ISBN-10: 0520286162

ISBN-13: 9780520286160

The resurrection of former prisons as museums has stuck the eye of visitors besides students drawn to learning what's often called darkish tourism. Unsurprisingly, as a result of their grim subject material, felony museums are likely to invert the "Disneyland" adventure, changing into the antithesis of "the happiest position on earth." In Escape to Prison, the end result of years of overseas examine, famous criminologist Michael Welch explores ten criminal museums on six continents, studying the complicated interaction among tradition and punishment. From Alcatraz to the Argentine detention center, museums developed at the former destinations of surveillance, torture, colonial keep an eye on, or even rehabilitation inform detailed stories in regards to the fiscal, political, spiritual, and medical roots of every site’s ancient courting to punishment.

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