‘Doing’ Coercion in Male Custodial Settings

An Ethnography of Italian Prison Officers Using Force

Luigi Gariglio (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

220 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-20726-4 (ISBN)

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This book offers a sustained study of one feature of the prison officer’s job: the threat and use of force, which the author calls ‘doing’ coercion. Adopting an interactionist, micro-sociological perspective, the author presents new research based on almost two years of participant observation within an Italian custodial complex hosting both a prison and a forensic psychiatric hospital.

Based on observation of emergency squad interventions during so-called ‘critical events’, together with visual methods and interviews with staff, ‘Doing’ Coercion in Male Custodial Settings constitutes an ethnographic exploration of both the organisation and the implicit and explicit practices of threatening and/or ‘doing’ coercion. With a focus on the lawful yet problematic and discretionary threatening and 'doing’ of coercion performed daily on the landing, the author contributes to the growing scholarly literature on power in prison settings, and the developing field of the micro-sociology of violence and of radical interactionism.

As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology and criminology with interests in prisons, power and violence in institutions, and visual methods.

Luigi Gariglio gained his PhD in Sociology at the University of Milan, and is Research Fellow at the University of Turin, Department of Cultures, Politics and Society. He has been teaching and researching in Sociology, Sociology of Communication, Visual Studies and Visual Research Methods. He was Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford, Centre for Criminology.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	16.08.2017
Reihe/Serie	Interactionist Currents
Zusatzinfo	1 Tables, black and white; 3 Line drawings, black and white; 29 Halftones, black and white; 31 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	566 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-138-20726-8 / 1138207268
ISBN-13	978-1-138-20726-4 / 9781138207264
Zustand	Neuware