RT Book
T1 Conviviality and Survival: Co-Producing Brazilian Prison Order
T2 Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
T2 SpringerLink Bücher
A1 Darke, Sacha
LA English
PP Cham
PB Springer International Publishing
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1028032870
AB 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
AB 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
OP 358
CN 365.981
SN 9783319922102
K1 Crime : Sociological aspects
K1 Criminology and Criminal Justice
K1 Critical Criminology
K1 Corrections
K1 Punishment
K1 Brasilien : Justizvollzugsanstalt : Ordnung : Sicherheit
DO 10.1007/978-3-319-92210-2