The ‘Screw Boys’ and the ‘Businessmen’: re-Negotiating Penal Power, Governance and Legitimate Authority Through a Prison Violence Reduction Scheme

Drawing on ethnographic and qualitative research, this article explores how both prisoners and staff wield authority in prison and with what effects. It combines legitimacy theory and governance theory to consider the relationship between legitimate and illegitimate governance by prisoners and offic...

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Main Author: Gooch, Kate (Author)
Contributors: Treadwell, James
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2023
In: The British journal of criminology
Year: 2023, Volume: 63, Issue: 5, Pages: 1219-1236
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