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Doing Prison Work (Hardcover)

By: Elaine Crawley (Author)

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This book provides a much needed sociological account of the social world of the English prison officer, making an original contribution to our understanding of the inner life of prisons in general and the working lives of prison officers in particular. As well as revealing how the job of the prison officer - and of the prison itself - is accomplished on a day to day basis, the book explores not only what prison officers do, but also how they feel about their work. This book makes a number of interesting revelations about the essentially domestic nature of much of the work they do, about the degree of emotional labor invested in it, and about the day-to-day interactions between officers and prisoners. Finally, the book follows the prison officer home after work, showing how the prison can spill over into the home life and family relationships. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in different types of prisons (including interviews with prison officers' wives and children as well a

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