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Prison Violence - Conflict, power and vicitmization (Hardcover)
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Prison Violence - Conflict, power and vicitmization (Hardcover)
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Prisons are dangerous places, and assaults, threats, theft and
verbal abuse are pervasive - attributable both to the
characteristics of the captive population and to an institutional
sub culture which promotes violence as a means of resolving
conflicts. Yet the crimes perpetrated by prisoners on other
prisoners have attracted little interest, and criminological
research has contributed little to an understanding of situations
in which violence arises in penal institutions. This book seeks to
remedy this, and to address and answer a number of key questions:
how do features of the prison social setting shape conflicts?; what
social norms guide the decision to use violence?; what are the
personal and social consequences of spending months or years in
places where distrust and anxiety are normal?; how do staff respond
to the dangers that are part of daily life in many prisons?; is it
possible to identify factors associated with risk and resilience?;
and what methods of handling conflicts do prisoners use that could
prevent violence? Prison Violence adopts a distinctive approach to
answering these questions, and is based on extensive research,
including interviews with both victims and perpetrators of prison
violence; it pioneers a conflict-centred approach, seeking to
understand the pathways into and out of situations where there is
potential for violence, focusing on interpersonal and institutional
dynamics rather than on individual psychological factors.
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