They died with their boots on: the boot camp and the limits of modern penality

In: Social justice: a journal of crime, conflict and world order, Band 22, Heft 2

Abstract

Argues that although there is much about the boot camp that signals the continuity of the modern in punishment, an alternative interpretation is to view boot camps as an exercise in wilful nostalgia, a sensibility that is a crucial marker of the postmodern for many scholars.