Prisons and the Problem of Order

by Sparks, Richard; Bottoms, Anthony; Hay, Will

• ISBN13: 9780198258186
• ISBN10: 0198258186
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-08-01
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

This book presents a substantial new statement on the character of social life in confinement. Drawing upon extensive fieldwork in two contrasting English maximum security prisons, the authors systematically compare their institutional order, including the differing control strategies deployedin each, as seen by both custodians and captives, controllers and controlled. The authors discuss the implications of their research for the tradition of sociological concern within the'prison community'. They re-examine the resources of that rich but latterly somewhat dormant field in the light ofsome of the main currents in contemporary social theory, and thereby provide a new perspective on the 'problem of order' in maximum custody. This book will have significant policy implications, and it will be required reading for scholars and students in criminology and criminal justice, as well asfor administrators and reformers in penal system.

Author Biography

Richard Sparks is Professor of Criminology at the University of Keele.

Table of Contents

Clarendon Studies in Criminology	p. ii
General Editor's Introduction	p. v
Preface	p. vii
Introduction: The Research in Context	p. 1
Social Order in Prisons: Theoretical Issues	p. 32
Approaching the Research	p. 97
Social Relations: Staff Perspectives	p. 131
Social Relations Ii: Prisoner Perspectives	p. 159
The Vulnerable Prisoner Unit at Albany	p. 204
Control Incidents: The Incidence and Management of Trouble	p. 227
Movements from 'Normal Location'	p. 265
Conclusions	p. 299
Order in Dispersal Prisons: Notes on a Research Process	p. 337
Lord Justice Woolf's Inquiry into Prison Disturbances: Evidence Submitted by the Authors	p. 357
References	p. 364
Bibliography	p. 365
Index	p. 379
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