Conviviality and survival : co-producing Brazilian prison order / Sacha Darke.

Titolo

Conviviality and survival : co-producing Brazilian prison order / Sacha Darke.

Descrizione

Title from PDF of title page (viewed, May 28, 2019)
Brazilian authorities continuously fail to comply with international norms on minimal conditions of incarceration. Brazil's prison population has risen ten-fold since the country's return to democracy in the 1980s. Its prisons typically operate at double official capacity and with 100 prisoners for each guard on duty. Officers do not maintain a permanent presence in the cell blocks. At the same time, however, the average Brazilian prison is not as disorderly or its staff-inmate relations so conflictual as our established theories on prison life might predict. This monograph explores the means by which Brazilian prisons function in the absence of guards. More specifically, the means by which prison security and inmate discipline is negotiated between prison managers, gangs and the wider inmate body. While fragile and varied, this historical tradition of co-produced governance has for decades kept most prisons in better order and enabled most prisoners to better survive.

Autore

Editore

Palgrave Macmillan,

Data

Autore di contributo subordinato

SpringerLink (Online service)

Formato

1 online resource (x, 358 p.)

Lingua

eng

Tipo

a

Diritti di accesso

Publisher's Web site. Access restricted to the University of Catania community.

DOI

10.1007/978-3-319-92210-2 doi

ISBN

3319922092
9783319922096
9783319922102 (electronic book)
3319922106 (electronic book)
3319922092
9783319922096

Series

Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
Palgrave studies in prisons and penology.

Files

2018_Book_ConvivialityAndSurvival.pdf

Citation

Darke, Sacha., “Conviviality and survival : co-producing Brazilian prison order / Sacha Darke.,” Lex e-books - Collana, ultimo accesso il 23 dicembre 2024, http://ebooks.unict.it/omeka/items/show/230.