Prison Officers
International Perspectives on Prison Work
Samenvatting
This edited collection brings together academics, lawyers, civil servants, and researchers working in the human rights NGO sector, to explore the work and role of prison officers around the world.
Each chapter offers a distinctive perspective on the work of prison officers within localised socio-economic and criminal justice contexts, to provide a unique overview and insight into the realities and complexities of the role through accessible scholarly interpretations of their work. The aim of the book is to advance knowledge and understanding of the crucial role that prison officers occupy within carceral systems.
The collection has widespread applicability with relevance beyond academia into criminal justice practice and policy internationally.Chapter 3 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Specificaties
Inhoudsopgave
Helen Arnold, Matthew Maycock and Rosemary Ricciardelli
PART I: Prison Officer Interpretations and Performances of Power and Authority
2. The moral value of authority: Reflections on the work of prison officer
Alison Liebling
3. Ukrainian prison officers and their powe
Anton Symkovych
4. French prison officers’ legal socialization: ‘The law, yes; prisoners’ rights, no'
Martine Herzog-Evans and Jerome Thomas
5. Proxy governance in (post) colonial prisons: When prison officers delegate power to prisoners
Tomas Max Martin and Andrew M. Jefferson
PART II: Prison Officer Identities and Workplace Cultures
6. Dirty work and beyond: Representations of Prison Officers in Prison Films
Jamie Bennett
7. “It’s a very clannish type of job”: Entitativity and identity in prison officers’ occupational cultures and identities
Joe Garrihy
8. ‘Friendly but not friends’ or ‘Never trust the bastards’? Staff-prisoner interaction styles in Australia and Norway
Anna Eriksson
9. “It is important to be a prison officer and have trade union back up”: Exploring trade union membership within the Scottish Prison Service
Katrina Morrison and Matthew Maycock
10. The prison officer in post-soviet Russia
Judith Pallot
PART III: Implications of Prison Policy and Management for the Role of Prison Officers
11. “Prison officers should be treated fairly”: Perceptions and experiences of fairness among prison officers in Ghana
Thomas Akoensi
12. Do risk-reducing measures only reduce risk? Prison officer work with risk-reducing measures in the imprisonment of a high-risk prisone
Knut Sørensen
13. Farewell to exceptionalism: An analysis of Swedish prisons officers’ attitudes towards prison policy, organisation, and their occupational role in 2009 and 2019
Anders Bruhn and Per Åke Nylander
14. The role of prison officers in transforming prisoners’ lives in Hong Kong
Wing Hong Chui, Aaron H.L. Wong, Henry Kao, and Frank Wong
15. Locating Prison Officers in the prison reforms discourse: Insights from India
Vijay Raghaven
PART IV: Working Conditions and Prison Officer Well-Being
16. The well-being of correctional officers in Canada
17. Fear and perceived risk among correctional officers
Makeela J. Wells, Stacy H. Haynes and David C. May
18. Prison Officers and their Work Routine in Brazilian Prisons
Francisco De Melo Nascimento
19. Conclusion: Towards a new research agenda to analyse the contemporary prison officer role
Matthew Maycock, Rosemary Ricciardelli and Helen Arnold
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