Books by Didier (Institute for Advanced Study Fassin

Translation of: Das Leben: eine kritische Gebrauchsanweisung.

The prison is a recent invention, hardly more than two centuries old, yet it has become the universal system of punishment.

Most incidents of urban unrest in recent decades - including the riots in France, Britain and other Western countries - have followed lethal interactions between the youth and the police. Usually these take place in disadvantaged neighborhoods composed of working-class families of immigrant origin or belonging to ethnic minorities.