Power and Pain in the Modern Prison
The Society of Captives Revisited
Published on 28. April 2022
Book
Hardback
416 pages
978-0-19-885933-8 (ISBN)
Description
Sykes' The Society of Captives has stood as a classic of modern penology for nearly 60 years. However, the continued relevance of Sykes' seminal publication often passes unremarked by many contemporary scholars working in the very field that such works helped to define. This book combines a series of timely reflections on authority, power and governance in modern prison institutions as well as a reflection on the enduring relevance of the work of Gresham Sykes. With chapters from many of the most influential scholars undertaking prison research today, the contributions discuss such matters as the pains of imprisonment, penal order, staff-prisoner relationships and the everyday world of the prison, drawing on and critiquing Sykes's theories and insights, and placing them in their historic and contemporary context.
Reviews / Votes
Pain and Power in the Modern Prison, by Crewe, Goldsmith and Halsey, is an edited collection that focuses on revisiting Sykes's foundational work, The Society of Captives. Sykes's (1958) seminal qualitative study-which involved an ethnographic investigation into a maximum-security prison in Trenton, New Jersey in the 1950s. * Ethan Higgins, CLCJB *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 208 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 46 mm
Weight
635 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-885933-8 (9780198859338)
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Ben Crewe | Andrew Goldsmith | Mark Halsey
Power and Pain in the Modern Prison
The Society of Captives Revisited
E-Book
10/2022
1st Edition
OUP eBook
€61.49
Available for download
Ben Crewe | Andrew Goldsmith | Mark Halsey
Power and Pain in the Modern Prison
The Society of Captives Revisited
E-Book
04/2022
1st Edition
OUP eBook
€61.49
Available for download
Persons
Ben Crewe is Professor of Penology and Criminal Justice, and deputy director of the Prisons Research Centre, at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK. He has published widely on prisons and imprisonment, including his 2009 monograph 'The Prisoner Society' and (with Susie Hulley and Serena Wright) his recent book 'Life Imprisonment from Young Adulthood: Adaptation, Identity and Time'.
Andrew Goldsmith Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor of Criminology, and Director of the Centre for Crime Policy and Research, Flinders University, Adelaide Australia. He co-authored (with Mark Halsey and Andrew Groves) Tackling Correctional Corruption: An Integrity Promoting Approach (Palgrave 2016). He has more recently co-authored (with several others) a book on Cybercrime Prevention (Palgrave 2019). Previously, for Clarendon Press, he edited (and contributed to) Complaints Against the Police: The Trend to External Review (Clarendon, 1991).
Mark Halsey is Professor of Criminology, Centre for Crime Policy and Research, Flinders University, Australia. He is the co-author of Generations Through Prison: Experiences of Intergenerational Imprisonment (Routledge 2020) and Young Offenders: Crime, Prison and Struggles for Desistance (Palgrave 2015).
Andrew Goldsmith Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor of Criminology, and Director of the Centre for Crime Policy and Research, Flinders University, Adelaide Australia. He co-authored (with Mark Halsey and Andrew Groves) Tackling Correctional Corruption: An Integrity Promoting Approach (Palgrave 2016). He has more recently co-authored (with several others) a book on Cybercrime Prevention (Palgrave 2019). Previously, for Clarendon Press, he edited (and contributed to) Complaints Against the Police: The Trend to External Review (Clarendon, 1991).
Mark Halsey is Professor of Criminology, Centre for Crime Policy and Research, Flinders University, Australia. He is the co-author of Generations Through Prison: Experiences of Intergenerational Imprisonment (Routledge 2020) and Young Offenders: Crime, Prison and Struggles for Desistance (Palgrave 2015).
Editor
Professor of Penology and Criminal JusticeProfessor of Penology and Criminal Justice, University of Cambridge, UK
Distinguished Professor of CriminologyDistinguished Professor of Criminology, Flinders University, Australia
Professor of CriminologyProfessor of Criminology, Flinders University, Australia
Content
A letter from Gresham Sykes
IntroductionBen Crewe, Andrew Goldsmith, and Mark Halsey:
Situating Sykes
1: Craig Haney: Sykes's prison in context: Change and continuity in the life span of a penitentiary
2: Mark Halsey: Sykes' method in context: The place and practice of 'slow science'
3: Richard Sparks: Sykes's problem of order in and out of context: Returning to the source in The Society of Captives
4: Thomas Ugelvik: Lost in translation: The Norwegian reading of The Society of Captives
The pains of imprisonment
5: Ben Crewe: Beyond deprivations: The pains of imprisonment and the prisoner social system
6: Yvonne Jewkes: 'An iron fist in a silk glove': The pains of Halden prison
7: John Pratt and Yoko Hosoi: 'No country for old men': Changing prison demographics and the pains of imprisonment
8: Sandra Bucerius, Luca Berardi, and Kevin Haggerty: "I'm in a federal prison, and I've never felt more free": The multi-faceted pains experienced by incarcerated Indigenous women in Canada
Prisoner culture and society
9: Alice Ievins: The Society of 'Sex Offenders'
10: Kate Gooch: Just don't wear prison issue!: Material deprivation, material machismo and the illicit prison economy
11: Jonathan Simon: The real human: Reimagining the 'real man' in The Society of Captives
12: Rajeev Gundur and Daniel Kavish: Captives in society: The role of race in the carceral cycle
Order and authority
13: Alison Liebling: The changing 'regime of the custodians': Visions of order and authority in high security prisons in England and Wales, 1988-2018
14: Andrew Goldsmith: Sykes' 'corruption of authority' and the sociology of prison corruption
15: Peter Scharff-Smith: Dynamic security or corruption of authority? Normalization and prisoner- staff relations in Danish prisons"
16: Mark Halsey, Andrew Goldsmith, and Ben Crewe: Conclusion
IntroductionBen Crewe, Andrew Goldsmith, and Mark Halsey:
Situating Sykes
1: Craig Haney: Sykes's prison in context: Change and continuity in the life span of a penitentiary
2: Mark Halsey: Sykes' method in context: The place and practice of 'slow science'
3: Richard Sparks: Sykes's problem of order in and out of context: Returning to the source in The Society of Captives
4: Thomas Ugelvik: Lost in translation: The Norwegian reading of The Society of Captives
The pains of imprisonment
5: Ben Crewe: Beyond deprivations: The pains of imprisonment and the prisoner social system
6: Yvonne Jewkes: 'An iron fist in a silk glove': The pains of Halden prison
7: John Pratt and Yoko Hosoi: 'No country for old men': Changing prison demographics and the pains of imprisonment
8: Sandra Bucerius, Luca Berardi, and Kevin Haggerty: "I'm in a federal prison, and I've never felt more free": The multi-faceted pains experienced by incarcerated Indigenous women in Canada
Prisoner culture and society
9: Alice Ievins: The Society of 'Sex Offenders'
10: Kate Gooch: Just don't wear prison issue!: Material deprivation, material machismo and the illicit prison economy
11: Jonathan Simon: The real human: Reimagining the 'real man' in The Society of Captives
12: Rajeev Gundur and Daniel Kavish: Captives in society: The role of race in the carceral cycle
Order and authority
13: Alison Liebling: The changing 'regime of the custodians': Visions of order and authority in high security prisons in England and Wales, 1988-2018
14: Andrew Goldsmith: Sykes' 'corruption of authority' and the sociology of prison corruption
15: Peter Scharff-Smith: Dynamic security or corruption of authority? Normalization and prisoner- staff relations in Danish prisons"
16: Mark Halsey, Andrew Goldsmith, and Ben Crewe: Conclusion