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The Defences of the Weak (Routledge Revivals) - A Sociological Study of a Norwegian Correctional Institution (Hardcover)
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The Defences of the Weak (Routledge Revivals) - A Sociological Study of a Norwegian Correctional Institution (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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This is a sociological study of a Norwegian penal institution. The
author spent two years in the institution, observing and
interviewing inmates and staff, the target being to learn the
extent to which American prisons fit with prison life in a
different culture. He gives a fascinating answer to the question:
Norwegian prisons were, at the time of the study, miles away from
their American counterparts. The conflicts between prison officers
and inmates were certainly there, but they took a very different
form. Rather than engaging in deviant practices and norms,
emphasising more or less solidary opposition against the staff, the
Norwegian prisoners criticised the staff and the prison fiercely on
the basis of their own norms; rather than engaging in deviance,
they turned the common practises and norms of Norwegian society
against the staff, engaging in a kind of moral surveillance of
those in power. He coined the phrase of "censoriousness" to this
approach from the "bottom" of the prison. Mathiesen spells out the
major causes of this different approach, from characteristics of
this particular prison to broader social forces.
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