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

Zusatztext This impressive volume in the highly regarded Clarendon Studies in Criminology series represents a major contribution to the tradition of sociological studies of the prison...a significant investment...it will not disappoint Informationen zum Autor Dr Ben Crewe is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge, and is a Nuffield Foundation New Career Development Fellow in social sciences. He is also a Research Fellow at Robinson College, Cambridge. He has published widely on prison life and media culture. The Prisoner Society offers an in-depth sociological analysis of prison life drawn from the life stories and experiences of prisoners and the testimony of officers, managers and prison governors at the UK prison HMP Wellingborough, a medium security prison. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Ben Crewe, Ben (Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Criminology Crewe, Crewe Ben
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2009
• EAN: 9780199577965
• ISBN: 978-0-19-957796-5
• No. of pages: 528
• Series: Clarendon Studies in Criminology; Clarendon Studies in Criminolo; Clarendon Studies in Criminology; Clarendon Studies in Criminolo
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Sociology, Strafrechtswissenschaft (Pönologie), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / Criminal Law / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, LAW / Criminal Procedure, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Social welfare & social services, Social welfare and social services, Penology and punishment, Prisons, Offenders, Social welfare, social policy and social services