More specifically, the means by which prison security and inmate discipline is negotiated between prison managers, gangs and the wider inmate body. While fragile and varied, this historical tradition of co-produced governance has for decades kept most prisons in better order and enabled most prisoners to better survive.
Sacha Darke is Lecturer in Criminology at University of Westminster, UK, and Visiting Lecturer at University of São Paulo. Sacha has authored and edited a number of articles, books and special journal editions on Brazilian and Latin American prison ethnographies. He is a founding member of British Convict Criminology.
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“I believe this book is an important contribution to prison studies, and should certainly be read by scholars interested in this subject, as well as by the general public.” (Bárbara Barraza Uribe, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, March, 2020)
Innehållsförteckning
1. Self-Governing Prison Communities.- 2. Law and Repression.- 3. The Northern Massacres.- 4. Surviving Through the Convívio.- 5. Managing Without Guards .- 6. Prison Gangs.- 7. Co-Producing Prison Order.