Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book
Author Edgar, Kimmett.

Title Prison violence : the dynamics of conflict, fear and power / Kimmett Edgar, Ian O'Donnell, and Carol Martin.

Publication Info. Cullompton, UK ; Portland, Or. : Willan, 2003.

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (x, 230 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Prison subculture -- Violence and social order -- Focusing on the mundane -- Interpersonal dynamics -- Designing a new analytical framework -- Methods and key concepts -- Victimization study -- Conflicts study -- Direct observation -- Prison violence viewed as conflict -- Extent and nature of victimization -- Rates of victimization -- Functions and contexts -- Sexual assault -- Trading -- Reciprocal victimization and bullying -- Bullying -- Victim's contribution to assaults in prison -- 'Overlap' and reciprocal victimization -- Victimization as a defining characteristic of the prison setting -- Fear and vulnerability -- Self-reported fear -- Safety paradox -- Relative safety -- Fear and space -- Perception of prison as a high-risk setting -- Vulnerable prisoner units -- Conflicts I: interests, relationships, catalysts -- Interests at stake: what conflicts were about -- Relationships: social distance between prisoners -- Catalysts: behaviours that fuelled conflicts -- Conflicts II -- interpretations, purposes, social context -- Interpretations: inferring the other's plan -- Purposes: what injurious force was intended to achieve -- Social context: the setting for conflict -- Power contests -- Power and strength -- Conflict in pairs -- Imbalances of power -- From conflict to contest -- Pathways to safety -- Prisoners resolving conflicts -- Factors impeding prevention -- Creating safer prisons.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Prison violence -- England.
Prison violence.
England.
Prisoners -- Violence against -- England.
Prisoners.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author O'Donnell, Ian.
Martin, Carol, 1954 April 30-
Other Form: Print version: Edgar, Kimmett. Prison violence 1903240980 (DLC) 2003272649 (OCoLC)50526227
ISBN 9781317829096 (electronic book)
1317829093 (electronic book)
1903240980
9781903240984