Elaine M Crawley

Doing Prison Work

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a much-needed 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9781843920359
• ISBN-10: 1843920352
• Artikelnr.: 24973564

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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