Gariglio ‘Doing’ Coercion in Male Custodial Settings

An Ethnography of Italian Prison Officers Using Force
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-315-46267-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 220 Seiten

Reihe: Interactionist Currents

This book offers a sustained study of on 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 one-and-a-half-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 or explicit practices of threatening and/or ‘doing’ coercion. With a focus on the lawful, yet problematic and discretional threatening and 'doing’ of coercion performed daily on the landing, the author 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.

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

List of Figures

Foreword (Mary Bosworth)

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

2. Studying ‘Doing’ Coercion: A micro-sociology bricolage

3. Peacemaking and beyond: The Everyday Prison Officers’ Duty

4. The Bureaucratic Organization of ‘Doing’ Coercion

5. Implicit Coercion Logic

6. Symbolic and Credible Threat of force

7. The Use of Force

8. Visual Notes from my Visual Ethnographic Diary

9. Methodological Afterthoughts

10. Conclusion: On Prison Officers and (good) violence

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Luigi Gariglio, PhD in Sociology at the University of Milan, is an independent researcher. He was academic visitor at the University of Oxford, Centre for Criminology. He has been teaching and researching in Sociology, Sociology of Communication, Visual Studies and Visual Research Methods at the University of Turin and he is Visiting Professor of Photography at the Naba Art Academy in Milan, Italy.