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Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail

Contributor(s): Walker, Michael L (Author)

ISBN: 9780190072865

Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Pub Date: February 25, 2022

Dewey: 365.34

LCCN: 2021031377

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Index

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 1.12" H x 9.53" L x 6.51" W ( 1.34 lbs) 288 pages

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Description: Indefinite is an ethnographic study of life in a contemporary county jail system. Having been arrested and jailed, Michael Walker turned his experience into an examination of jails from the inside out, revealing the physical and emotional experience of doing time, the set of strategies prisoners use to endure it, and the deputies who use race to control prisoners and the kinds of experiences prisoners had.

Review Quotes: "Indefinite provides readers with many examples of concepts that may have been mentioned in other literatures but not been concretely depicted due to lack of access to the information." -- Jade Moore, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

"Indefinite delivers here in an illuminating and educational way." -- Kitan Ososami, The Law Society Gazette

"Indefinite argues that legitimate change in the way this country deals with people accused of breaking the law would have to begin with the recognition of their humanity." --The Arts Fuse

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