Doing Coercion in Male Custodial Settings - An Ethnography of Italian Prison Officers Using Force

List of contents

Foreword by Mary Bosworth
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. ‘Doing’ coercion: a micro-sociology bricolage
3. Peacemaking and beyond: the prison officer's everyday duties
4. The bureaucratic organization of ‘doing’ coercion
5. Implicit coercion logic
6. The symbolic and credible threat of force
7. The use of force
8. Notes from my visual ethnographic diary
9. Methodological afterthoughts
10. Conclusion: on prison officers and (good) violence
Index

Product details

• Authors: Luigi Gariglio, Luigi (University of Turin Gariglio
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.07.2017
• EAN: 9781138207264
• ISBN: 978-1-138-20726-4
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: Interactionist Currents
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Gender studies, gender groups, Crime and criminology, Prisons, Sentencing & punishment, Sentencing and punishment, Gender Studies: Men