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The Prisoner Society - Power, Adaptation and Social Life in an English Prison (Paperback)
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The Prisoner Society - Power, Adaptation and Social Life in an English Prison (Paperback)
Series: Clarendon Studies in Criminology
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While the use of imprisonment continues to rise in developed
nations, we have little sociological knowledge of the prison's
inner world. Based on extensive fieldwork in a medium-security
prison, The Prisoner Society: Power, Adaptation and Social Life in
an English Prison provides an in-depth analysis of the prison's
social anatomy. It explains how power is exercised by the
institution, individualizing the prisoner community and demanding
particular forms of compliance and engagement. Drawing on
prisoners' life stories, it supplies a detailed typology of
adaptive styles, showing how different prisoners experience and
respond to the new range of penal practices and frustrations. It
then explains how the prisoner society - its norms, hierarchy and
social relationships - is shaped both by these conditions of
confinement and by the different backgrounds, values and identities
that prisoners bring into the prison environment.
Through this analysis, this meticulously researched book aims to
revive and update the dormant tradition of prison ethnography. It
provides an empirical snapshot of a modern prison, documenting the
aims and techniques of contemporary imprisonment and illuminating
the social structures and behaviors that they generate. Through a
penetrating account of power relations throughout the institution,
the author documents the pains of modern imprisonment, the new
techniques of survival, and the prison's distinctive forms of
trade, friendship and everyday culture.
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