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
Drawing upon extensive fieldwork in two contrasting English maximum security prisons, the authors systematically compare their institutional order, including the differing control strategies deployed in each, as seen by both custodians and captives, controllers and controlled
