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dc.contributor.authorYoung, Christopher
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-28T11:39:39Z
dc.date.available2020-09-28T11:39:39Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.isbn9783037777497en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/42091
dc.description.abstractPrisons are a rich source for literary narratives – but what narratives do prison officers themselves construct about working in a prison and their place in it? How do they talk about their daily work with prisoners, justify disciplinary action or assess prison as a form of punishment in general? As ontological narratives which position and give rise to the self, prison officers’ narratives are highly relevant, as they shape officers’ daily practice, the working of the prison as an organisation and ultimately the way prisoners are treated. Christopher Young combines field notes and interviews from a Swiss prison to reconstruct a typology of prison officers’ narratives of the self. One casts the officer as a tragic hero fighting to prevent the decline of punishment, another positions the officer as a lone fighter attempting to overcome the therapy-adverse inertia of the prison system. As the study shows, this inherent tension ultimately contributes to the failure of the attempt to establish a therapeutic detention unit. Prison officers’ narratives are viewed as shared narratives which cite and echo legal and media discourses, which the author in turn reconstructs on the basis of a discussion of the history of Swiss penal law and practice and a recent corpus of newspaper articlesen_US
dc.languageGermanen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDifferenzenen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminologyen_US
dc.subject.otherjusticeen_US
dc.subject.otherpenal systemen_US
dc.subject.othersocial politicsen_US
dc.subject.otherprisonen_US
dc.subject.otherprison officersen_US
dc.titleNarrative im Justizvollzugen_US
dc.title.alternativeIdentitäten von Mitarbeitenden, medialer Diskurs und historischer Kontexten_US
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.33058/seismo.30749en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy2a4e97ae-726c-4086-a24b-d4536718a4a8en_US
oapen.pages381en_US


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