The Working Lives of Prison Managers: Global Change, Local Culture and Individual Agency in the Late Modern Prison

by Jamie Bennett

This book offers the first ethnographic account of prison managers in England. It explores how globalised changes, in particular managerialism, have intersected with local occupational cultures, positioning managers as micro-agents in the relationship between the global and local that characterises late modernity.
The Working Lives of Prison Managers addresses key aspects of prison management, including how individuals become prison managers,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137498943
• ISBN13: 9781137498946
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"