Conviviality and Survival : Co-Producing Brazilian Prison Order / by Sacha Darke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Darke, Sacha., Author.

Series:

Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology, 2753-0612

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corrections.

Punishment.

Critical criminology.

Crime--Sociological aspects.

Crime.

Prison and Punishment.

Critical Criminology.

Crime and Society.

Local Subjects:

Prison and Punishment.

Critical Criminology.

Crime and Society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (X, 358 p. 7 illus. in color.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2018.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Summary:

Brazilian authorities continuously fail to comply with international norms on minimal conditions of incarceration. Brazil's prison population has risen ten-fold since the country's return to democracy in the 1980s. Its prisons typically operate at double official capacity and with 100 prisoners for each guard on duty. Officers do not maintain a permanent presence in the cell blocks. At the same time, however, the average Brazilian prison is not as disorderly or its staff-inmate relations so conflictual as our established theories on prison life might predict. This monograph explores the means by which Brazilian prisons function in the absence of guards. 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.

Contents:

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. .

ISBN:

9783319922102

3319922106