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

This book offers a sustained study of on one feature of a prison officer's job: 'doing' coercion. Adopting an interactionist perspective, the book presents research based on one-and-a-half-years of participant observation within an Italian custodial complex hosting both a prison and forensic psychiatric hospital, together with visual methods and interviews with staff. With a focus on the lawful, yet problematic and discretional threatening and 'doing' of coercion this volume contributes to the growing scholarly debate on power in a prison setting and the developing field of the micro-sociology of violence and of radical interactionism.

Sommario

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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Luigi Gariglio, Luigi (University of Turin Gariglio
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 27.07.2017
• EAN: 9781138207264
• ISBN: 978-1-138-20726-4
• Pagine: 220
• Serie: Interactionist Currents
• Categorie: Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Politica; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Diritto > Diritto penale, diritto processuale penale, criminologia; 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