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Doing Shifts: The Role of Correctional Officers
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.

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Doing Shifts: The Role of Correctional Officers
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.

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Doing Shifts: The Role of Correctional Officers

Doing Shifts: The Role of Correctional Officers

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

Doing Shifts: The Role of Correctional Officers

by Serena Franchi

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783031445521
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
Publication date: 12/05/2023
Series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
Edition description: 1st ed. 2024
Pages: 177
Product dimensions: 5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.00(d)

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.

Table of Contents

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.

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