| Description |
viii, 384 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Clarendon studies in criminology |
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Clarendon studies in criminology.
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| Contents |
1. Introduction: the Research in Context -- 2. Social Order in Prisons: Theoretical Issues -- 3. Approaching the Research -- 4. Social Relations: Staff Perspectives -- 5. Social Relations II: Prisoner Perspectives -- 6. The Vulnerable Prisoner Unit at Albany -- 7. Control Incidents: the Incidence and Management of Trouble -- 8. Movements from 'Normal Location' -- 9. Conclusions -- Appendix A: Order in Dispersal Prisons: Notes on a Research Process -- Appendix B: Lord Justice Woolf's Inquiry into Prison Disturbances: Evidence Submitted by the Authors |
| Summary |
"This book presents a substantial new statement on the character of social life in confinement. Drawing upon extensive fieldwork in two contrasting English maximum security prisons, the authors systematically compare this institutional order, including the differing control strategies deployed in each, as seen by both custodians and captives, controllers and controlled. The authors discuss the implications of their research for the tradition of sociological concern within the 'prison community'. They re-examine the resources of that rich but latterly somewhat dormant field in the light of some of the main currents in contemporary social theory, and thereby provide a new perspective on the 'problem of order' in maximum custody. This book will have significant policy implications, and it will be required reading for scholars and students in criminology and criminal justice, as well as for administrators and reformers in penal system."--BOOK JACKET |
| Analysis |
Great Britain |
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Prisons |
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Great Britain |
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Prisons |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [365]-377) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
H.M. Prison Albany.
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HM Prison Long Lartin.
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Prisoners -- Great Britain -- Case studies.
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Prison administration -- Great Britain -- Case studies.
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Prisons -- Great Britain -- Case studies.
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| Author |
Bottoms, Anthony E., 1939-
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Hay, Will.
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| LC no. |
96001645 |
| ISBN |
0198258186 (alk. paper) |
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