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This book provides a much-needed sociological account of the social
world of the English prison officer, making an original
contribution to our understanding of the inner life of prisons in
general and the working lives of prison officers in particular. As
well as revealing how the job of the prison officer - and of the
prison itself - is accomplished on a day-to-day basis, the book
explores not only what prison officers do but also how they feel
about their work. In focusing on how prison officers feel about
their work this book makes a number of interesting revelations -
about the essentially domestic nature of much of the work they do,
about the degree of emotional labour invested in it and about the
performance nature of many of the day-to-day interactions between
officers and prisoners. Finally, the book follows the prison
officer home after work, showing how the prison can spill over into
their home lives and family relationships. Based on extensive
ethnographic fieldwork in different types of prisons (including
interviews with prison officers' wives and children as well as
prison officers themselves), this book will be essential reading
for all those with an interest in how prisons and organisations
more generally operate in practice.
This book provides a much-needed sociological account of the social
world of the English prison officer, making an original
contribution to our understanding of the inner life of prisons in
general and the working lives of prison officers in particular. As
well as revealing how the job of the prison officer - and of the
prison itself - is accomplished on a day-to-day basis, the book
explores not only what prison officers do but also how they feel
about their work. In focusing on how prison officers feel about
their work this book makes a number of interesting revelations -
about the essentially domestic nature of much of the work they do,
about the degree of emotional labour invested in it and about the
performance nature of many of the day-to-day interactions between
officers and prisoners. Finally, the book follows the prison
officer home after work, showing how the prison can spill over into
their home lives and family relationships. Based on extensive
ethnographic fieldwork in different types of prisons (including
interviews with prison officers' wives and children as well as
prison officers themselves), this book will be essential reading
for all those with an interest in how prisons and organisations
more generally operate in practice.
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