Negative visibility and ‘the defences of the weak’: the interplay of a managerial culture and prisoner resistance

While being structurally subordinate, prisoners are neither powerless nor mute. Drawing on semi-ethnographic research in a Ukrainian medium-security prison for men, in this article, I advance the concept of ‘negative visibility’—that is, an administration’s fear of external attention and interventio...

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Main Author: Symkovych, Anton (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2020
In: Theoretical criminology
Year: 2020, Volume: 24, Issue: 2, Pages: 202-221
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