'Doing' Coercion in Male Custodial Settings: An Ethnography of Italian Prison Officers Using Force

ISBN-13: 9781138207264 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 206 str.

Luigi Gariglio

Opis

This book offers a sustained study of on one feature of a prison officer’s job: ‘doing’ coercion. Adopting an interactionist perspective, the book presents research based on one-and-a-half-years of participant observation within an Italian custodial complex hosting both a prison and forensic psychiatric hospital, together with visual methods and interviews with staff. With a focus on the lawful, yet problematic and discretional threatening and 'doing’ of coercion this volume contributes to the growing scholarly debate on power in a prison setting and the developing field of the micro-sociology of violence and of radical interactionism.

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O autorze

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.