Prison Breaks

1. Introduction: Toward a Sociology of Prison Escape
Gilles Chantraine, Tomas Max Martin

Part I. Resistance and Everyday Life

2. Chapter 1 Prison Escapes, Everyday Life and the State: Narratives of Contiguity and Disruption
Mahuya Bandyopadhyay

3. Chapter 2 There Is No Escape: Constrained Tales of Sovereign Practice and Relations
Andrew M. Jefferson

4. Chapter 3 Resistant Adaptation: Reflections on Escape from Italian Prisons
Simone Santorso

Part II. Politics and Transition

5. Chapter 4 Mocking the State: Heroism, Humanity and Humiliation in the Context of Naxal Jailbreaks in India
Atreyee Sen

6. Chapter 5 Prison Escape and Its Political Imaginary in Times of Political Crisis: Tunisia, 2011–2016
Yasmine Bouagga

7. Chapter 6 Narco-capitalism and Carceral Marronage in Northern Mexico: What La Flaquita Knows
Chris Garces

Part III. Law and Bureaucracy

8. Chapter 7 “Escaping from Hell Is a Right!”: The Case of France’s “Q.H.S.” (1975–1982)
Grégory Salle

9. Chapter 8 Escapees or Young Runaways? At the Boundaries of Confinement in a French Closed Educational Center
Nicolas Sallée

10. Chapter 9 The Tricky Escape from Kizoti Court: Entanglement, Precarity and Ugandan Prison Staff
Tomas Max Martin

Part IV. Escape Imaginaries and Popular Culture

11. Chapter 10 Representations of Prison Escapes in Films
Jamie Bennett

12. Chapter 11 Prison, Jailbreaks, and Escapees in Two Popular TV Series: The Prisoner and Prison Break

Gwenola Ricordeau

13. Chapter 12 “Everybody Likes Escape Stories”: Exploring Representations of Prison Escape in Canadian Penal History Museums
Matthew Ferguson, Devon Madill, Justin Piché, Kevin Walby

14. Afterword
Lorna A. Rhodes

Nyckelord: Criminology and Criminal Justice, Prison and Punishment, Youth Offending and Juvenile Justice, Human Rights and Crime, Criminal Justice, Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime