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The multicultural prison: ethnicity, masculinity, and social relations among prisoners
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Phillips, Coretta.
- Series:
- Clarendon studies in criminology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Masculinity.
- Prison psychology.
- Prisons.
- Prisons and race relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (215 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford University Press 2012
- Summary:
- This work presents a unique sociological analysis of the negotiation of ethnic difference within the closed world of the male prison. Using rich empirical material drawn from extensive qualitative research in Rochester Young Offenders' Institution and Maidstone prison, the author provides an arresting insight into how race is written into prison relations.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-165443-4
- 0-19-165442-6
- 1-283-94380-8
- 0-19-176055-2
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