Overview
- Analyses 70 hours of descriptive and relational data of observational behavior in an Italian prison
- Offers an innovative account of correctional officers and their influence on the prison system
- Compares and contrasts power differences in male and female correctional officers' behaviour
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology (PSIPP)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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 the Italian prison system.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Doing Shifts
Book Subtitle: The Role of Correctional Officers
Authors: Serena Franchi
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44553-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-44552-1Published: 05 December 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-44555-2Due: 05 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-44553-8Published: 04 December 2023
Series ISSN: 2753-0604
Series E-ISSN: 2753-0612
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 177
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Prison and Punishment, Crime Control and Security, Critical Criminology, Social Sciences, general, Socio-legal Studies