‘Hazardous on My Soul’: (Dis)compassion and Emotive Dissonance in Prison Work

A history of social research has aimed to illuminate consequences for the psyche of workers that carry out occupations in dehumanizing contexts. In criminology, scholarship has detailed concern over how carceral contexts produce detriment via emotional labour for workers. Although prison work has be...

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Main Author: Higgins, Ethan M. (Author)
Contributors: Smith, Justin Marc ; Swartz, Kristin
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2024
In: The British journal of criminology
Year: 2024, Volume: 64, Issue: 5, Pages: 1211-1227
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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