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The Prisoner Society: Power, Adaptation and Social Life in an English Prison

The Prisoner Society: Power, Adaptation and Social Life in an English Prison

Crewe, Ben

Hardcover

Series: Clarendon Studies in Criminology

CriminologyGeneral Law

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ISBN10: 019957796X
ISBN13: 9780199577965
Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
Published: Dec 13 2009
Pages: 528
Weight: 1.85
Height: 1.40 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
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 in the UK, HMP Wellingborough, 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 shows 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.

Individual chapters in the book examine the flow of power, social order and governance, social relations and hierarchy, everyday prison culture, politics and economics, and the effects of imprisonment on prisoners. The book also looks at the recent accounts of transformations in penal management and changes in prison policy, and offers comparative content on the quality of prison life by drawing upon quantitative evaluations based on standard UK prison surveys and visits to three other category C prisons.

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