Doing Shifts: The Role of Correctional Officers

by Serena Franchi

This book offers an incisive account of correctional officers' daily practices, their role and how they represent themselves in relation to the prison, and by extension, the state. Drawing on ethnographic research undertaken in an Italian prison, Doing Shifts explores how correctional officers' perspectives and shared views reproduce and reinforce working behaviors with specific administrative and bureaucratic features. It explores how global penal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 303144552X
• ISBN13: 9783031445521
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 177 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"