Full Description
This book provides a unique analysis of prisons and the violence at work inside them. It not only addresses aspects such as racial discrimination, especially in US prisons, but also gender differences, specific criminal groups operating within prisons, the reintegration processes and its failures. Combining works by various authors, it presents diverse perspectives on prison violence: in countries ranging from the USA to Australia, crossing European countries such as Portugal and Spain, among others, but also specific aspects such as prohibitions on phone calls, the economic crisis, and the current challenges of mass incarceration. As such, it offers a broad overview of several problems relevant to all scholars interested in deepening their understanding of violence in prisons.
Contents
Brief Introduction to Prison, State, and Violence Intersections.- From Mass Incarceration to a Culture of Control.- Class, Race, and Hyperincarceration in Revanchist America (Republication).- The Welfare Culture Crisis and the Socialising Intervention in Prison.- Prison, Ethnicities and State: Establishing Theoretical and Empirical Connections.- Prison in Spain and Social Exclusion Policies.- The Perceptions of Foreign Organized Crime Groups Inside Portuguese Prisons: Cross-Problems on "First Capital Command PCC" Brazilian Leading Cases and Constructed Stereotypes.- Contested Terrains and Incubators of Violence: Carceral Establishments in Democratic Brazil.- Foreign National Women Arrested for Drug Trafficking: A Dynamic Socio-Penal Portrait.- Permeable Prison Walls: Social Relationships, Symbolic Violence and Reproduction of Inequalities.- The Evolution of Detaining Accompanied Migrant Minors Without a Residence Permit in Belgium.- Finding a Way Out of Prison: Portugal, A Collaborative Model.
