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Title
Conviviality and survival : co-producing Brazilian prison order / Sacha Darke.
ISBN
9783319922102 (electronic book)
3319922106 (electronic book)
9783319922096
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Call Number
HV8764
Dewey Decimal Classification
365.643
Summary
Brazilian authorities continuously fail to comply with international norms on minimal conditions of incarceration. Brazil's prison population has risen ten-fold since the country's return to democracy in the 1980s. Its prisons typically operate at double official capacity and with 100 prisoners for each guard on duty. Officers do not maintain a permanent presence in the cell blocks. At the same time, however, the average Brazilian prison is not as disorderly or its staff-inmate relations so conflictual as our established theories on prison life might predict. This monograph explores the means by which Brazilian prisons function in the absence of guards. More specifically, the means by which prison security and inmate discipline is negotiated between prison managers, gangs and the wider inmate body. While fragile and varied, this historical tradition of co-produced governance has for decades kept most prisons in better order and enabled most prisoners to better survive.-- Provided by publisher.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed July 19, 2018)
Series
Palgrave studies in prisons and penology
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Print version: 9783319922096
Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; 1 Self-Governing Prison Communities; Managing in Prison; Getting By; Mutual Aid; References; 2 Law and Repression; The Great Incarceration; Overcrowding; Violent Iberian Realities; References; 3 The Northern Massacres; References; 4 Surviving through the Convívio; Staff Shortage; Conviviality; Co-governance; References; 5 Managing without Guards; The Colaboradores; The Representantes; No Guards; Prisoners in Charge?; References; 6 Prison Gangs; The Red Command; The First Command of the Capital; References; 7 Co-producing Prison Order
