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