The Time Game: Two Views of a Prison

Manocchio, Anthony J., and Jimmy Dunn

ISBN 10: 0803900791 / ISBN 13: 9780803900790

Published by Sage Publications, 1970

About this Item

Hardcover; light fading, light shelf wear to the cover with a bump to the lower back corner; former owner's name on front end page; otherwise in good condition with clean text and tight binding,

Seller Inventory # 69538

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Time Game: Two Views of a Prison
• Publisher: Sage Publications
• Publication Date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803900791
• ISBN 13: 9780803900790
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: UsedGood

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Synopsis

In this unusual insider′s look at prison life, both a prisoner and a prison counsellor give their own views of the same events. Each man approaches the "time game" with different purposes, values, goals. Each plays his part in relation to the other, to the prison system, and to the society beyond the walls from which each is, in his own way, cut off. What emerges is an insight into the ways these men think about and interpret their experiences. Their differing, often contradictory, modes of thought never come to grips with one another. Yet despite these differences, the interdependence of prisoner and counsellor as subunits of prison culture becomes clear. Each is a player in a game he cannot win. "Helps fill an important gap between formal empirical studies of the prison and sensational first person accounts."