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The Multicultural Prison: Ethnicity, Masculinity, and Social Relations among Prisoners
Presents a unique sociological analysis of the negotiation of ethnic difference within the closed world of the male prison. Using rich empirical material drawn from extensive qualitative research in Rochester Young Offenders' Institution and Maidstone prison, the author provides an arresting insight into how race is written into prison relations.
| Author(s) | By Coretta Phillips (Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science). |
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| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 268 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 8 Nov 2012 |
| Availability | POD |
Presents a unique sociological analysis of the negotiation of ethnic difference within the closed world of the male prison. Using rich empirical material drawn from extensive qualitative research in Rochester Young Offenders' Institution and Maidstone prison, the author provides an arresting insight into how race is written into prison relations.
1. Enduring Trialities, Globalization, and Prison Populations ; 2. Racial Identities, Social Relations, and Prison Policies ; 3. The Art of the Possible: Epistemological Turns and Counter-Turns ; 4. Ethnic Identities, Faith, and the Dynamics of Multicultu
Coretta Phillips is Senior Lecturer in the London School of Economics' Department of Social Policy. She has published extensively in the field of ethnicity, crime and criminal justice and served on the editorial board of the British Journal of Criminology
