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Record Nr.

UNINA9910767504703321

Autore

Franchi Serena

Titolo

Doing Shifts : The Role of Correctional Officers / / by Serena Franchi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024

ISBN

9783031445538

3031445538

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology, , 2753-0612

Disciplina

364.6

Soggetti

Corrections

Punishment

Criminology

Critical criminology

Deviant behavior

Social control

Law and the social sciences

Prison and Punishment

Crime Control and Security

Critical Criminology

Deviance and Social Control

Socio-Legal Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Introduction: From poverty governance to disciplinary practices in prison -- Chapter 2. Pervasive social control: How merit shapes authorities’ perception -- Chapter 3. Being correctional officer: Unattended expectations and coping strategies -- Chapter 4. Identifying as correctional officer: A relational factor -- Chapter 5. Acting as correctional officer: Authority trough discretion -- Chapter 6. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers an incisive account of correctional officers’ daily practices, their role and how they represent themselves in relation to the prison, and by extension, the state. Drawing on ethnographic



research undertaken in an Italian prison, Doing Shifts explores how correctional officers’ perspectives and shared views reproduce and reinforce working behaviors with specific administrative and bureaucratic features. It explores how global penal trends are enacted in a local context and how the prison systems plays into our understanding of institutional and administrative power. It advances the discussion on organizational and institutional power through the lens of social control and street-level bureaucracy literature. It also explores gender variations in the discretional use of correctional officers’ power. This book has a cross-disciplinary appeal for criminologists, sociologists, anthropologists, and political scientists and to policy-makers. Serena Franchi is Research Fellow at Istituto degli Innocenti research centre, Florence, Italy. Serena holds a PhD in Social and Political Change at the University of Florence and University of Turin and has 12 years of professional and academic experience in researching on the Italian prison system.