RT Article
T1 Compromised power and negotiated order in a Ukrainian prison
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 58
IS 1
SP 200
OP 217
A1 Symkovych, Anton
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1576173135
AB Analyzing data from a semi-ethnographic study in a Ukrainian medium-security prison for men, I discuss how officers and prisoners negotiate order to produce a manageable, stable, predictable, peaceful and relatively habitable prison environment. Broadening the debate about power and order by introducing a case study from a non-‘Western’ context, I argue that prisoners and officers, apart from utilitarian compromises, also employ moral reasoning in their power negotiations. I demonstrate that in the context of prison’s radical deficit in legitimacy, exacerbated by a corrupt, under-reformed, post-totalitarian state, non-conformity with legal norms might be more legitimate than legal conformity.
K1 Ukraine
K1 Power
K1 Order
K1 Legitimacy
K1 Authority
K1 Prison officers
K1 Prisoners
K1 Strafvollzug
K1 Vollzugsbedienstete
K1 Strafgefangene
K1 Totalitäres System
DO https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azx012