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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Franchi, Serena.

Series:

Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology, 2753-0612

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corrections.

Punishment.

Criminology.

Critical criminology.

Deviant behavior.

Social control.

Law and the social sciences.

Prison and Punishment.

Crime Control and Security.

Critical Criminology.

Deviance and Social Control.

Socio-Legal Studies.

Local Subjects:

Prison and Punishment.

Crime Control and Security.

Critical Criminology.

Deviance and Social Control.

Socio-Legal Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2024.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

Summary:

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. 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 on the Italian prison system.

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.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Franchi, Serena Doing Shifts

ISBN:

9783031445538

3031445538

OCLC:

1412622985