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'A Perfect Storm'

An Ethnography of a Prison Crisis

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-5292-5314-6
Verlag: Bristol University Press
Erscheinungstermin: 25.08.2026
vorbestellbar, Erscheinungstermin ca. August 2026

This ethnography of an English adult male prison explores a polycrisis of violence, self-harm, overcrowding, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Using Bourdieu’s field theory, it uniquely highlights the complex interplay of policy, people, and practices to reveal how prisons exacerbate social inequality.

The book uncovers paradoxes between prison’s stated aims of safety, security, and (re)habilitation and their adverse realities, including the harms to prisoners’ reintegration upon release. The prison operates as 'a perfect storm' of mutually reinforcing conditions that reproduce harmful outcomes. The book contends that the real crisis isn't that prisons fail, it’s that we continue to believe they're meant to succeed.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781529253146
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-5292-5314-6
  • Verlag: Bristol University Press
  • Erscheinungstermin: 25.08.2026
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2026
  • Produktform: Gebunden
  • Seiten: 218
  • Format (B x H): 156 x 234 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Autoren

1. The Elephants in the Penal Corner

2. The Living Symphony

3. A Crisis of Imagination

4. Bowing to Caesar: The Paradox of Safety

5. ‘Arte et Labore’: The Paradox of Security

6. Unmasking the Pandemic Response in Prison: The Paradox of Health

7. The Storm That Never Breaks