RT Article
T1 Prisoner Society in an Era of Psychoactive Substances, Organized Crime, New Drug Markets and Austerity
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 60
IS 5
SP 1260
OP 1281
A1 Gooch, Kate
A2 Treadwell, James
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1727171713
AB Framed by the limited and now dated ethnographic research on the prison drug economy, this article offers new theoretical and empirical insights into how drugs challenge the social order in prisons in England and Wales. It draws on significant original and rigorous ethnographic research to argue that the ‘era of hard drugs’ has been superseded by an ‘era of new psychoactive drugs’, redefining social relations, transforming the prison illicit economy, producing new forms of prison victimization and generating far greater economic power and status for suppliers. These changes represent the complex interplay and compounding effects of broader shifts in political economy, technological advances, organized crime, prison governance and the declining legitimacy and moral performance of English and Welsh prisons.
K1 Prisons
K1 Drugs
K1 Psychoactive substances
K1 Violence
K1 Organized  crime
K1 Ethnography
DO 10.1093/bjc/azaa019