'Doing' Coercion in Male Custodial Settings

An Ethnography of Italian Prison Officers Using Force
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-20799-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 345 g

Reihe: Interactionist Currents

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gariglio, Luigi

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.