Doing Prison Work: The Public and Private Lives of Prison Officers

ISBN-13: 9781843920359 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 304 str.

Elaine (Keele University) Crawley

Opis

This title provides a sociological account of the social world of the English prison officer, making an original contribution to our understanding of the inner life of prisons in general and the working lives of prison officers in particular. As well as revealing how the job of the prison officer - and of the prison itself - is accomplished on a day to day basis, the book explores not only what prison officers do but also how they feel about their work.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Setting the scene: the research in context 2. Research methods 3. Learning the rules, managing feelings: becoming a prison officer 4. Them and us? How officers see prisoners 5. Emotion and performance: the presentation of self in prisons 6. When things go wrong: suicide and conflict 7. How prison officers see their work, themselves and each other 8. Bringing it all back home? Stories of husbands and wives 9. Conclusions: doing prison work

O autorze

Elaine Crawley is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Salford.