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Author Phillips, Coretta, author.

Title The multicultural prison : ethnicity, masculinity, and social relations among prisoners / by Coretta Phillips
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (296 pages)
Series Clarendon studies in criminology
Clarendon studies in criminology.
Contents Enduring trailities, globalization, and prison populations -- Racial identities, social relations, and prison policies -- The art of the possible: epistemological turns and counter-turns -- Ethnic identities, faith, and the dynamics of multicultural con-viviality -- From boys to men: racialized masculinities inside -- The pains of racism
Summary This work presents a unique sociological analysis of the negotiation of ethnic difference within the closed world of the male prison. Using rich empirical material drawn from extensive qualitative research in Rochester Young Offenders' Institution and Maidstone prison, the author provides an arresting insight into how race is written into prison relations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject HMYOI Rochester.
HM Prison Maidstone.
SUBJECT HM Prison Maidstone fast
HMYOI Rochester fast
Subject Prisons -- Great Britain -- Sociological aspects
Prisons and race relations -- Great Britain
Masculinity -- Social aspects
Prison psychology -- Great Britain
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
Masculinity -- Social aspects
Prison psychology
Prisons and race relations
Prisons -- Sociological aspects
Great Britain
Form Electronic book
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