Prison Breaks: Toward a Sociology of Escape

INTRODUCTION: Towards a Sociology of Prison Escape; Gilles Chantraine and Tomas Max Martin.- PART ONE: Resistance and Everyday Life.- CHAPTER 1. Prison Escapes, Everyday Life and the State; Mahuya Bandyopadhyay.- Chapter 2. There is No Escape; Andrew M Jefferson.- Chapter 3. Resistant Adaptation to Prison; Simone Santorso.- PART TWO: POLITICS AND TRANSITION.- Chapter 4. Mocking the State: Heroism, Humanity and Humiliation in the Context of Naxal Jailbreaks in India; Atreyee Sen.- Chapter 5. Prison Escape and its Political Imaginary in Times of Political Crisis; Yasmine Bouagga.- Chapter 6. Maroon Prison Religion; Chris Garces.- PART THREE: LAW AND BUREAUCRACY.- Chapter 7. "Escaping from Hell is a Right!"; Gregory Salle.- Chapter 8. Escapees or Young Runaways?; Nicolas Sallée.- Chapter 9. The Tricky Escape from Kizoti Court; Tomas Max Martin.- PART FOUR: ESCAPE IMAGINARIES AND POPULAR CULTURE.- Chapter 10. Representations of Prison Escapes in Films; Jamie Bennett.- Chapter 11. Prison, Jailbreaks and Escapees in Two Popular Tv Series; Gwenola Ricordeau.- Chapter 12. 'Everybody Likes Escape Stories'; Matthew Ferguson, Devon Madill, Justin Piché and Kevin Walby.