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.
Author(s): Maria João Guia, Silvia Gomes
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 183
Tags: International Criminal Law, Prisons, State, Violence
Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii
Brief Introduction to Prison, State, and Violence Intersections (Maria João Guia, Sílvia Gomes)....Pages 1-6
From Mass Incarceration to a Culture of Control (Julie Mestre Brancale, Thomas G. Blomberg)....Pages 7-13
Class, Race, and Hyperincarceration in Revanchist America (Republication) (Loïc Wacquant)....Pages 15-32
The Welfare Culture Crisis and the Socialising Intervention in Prison (Anabela Miranda Rodrigues)....Pages 33-47
Prison, Ethnicities and State: Establishing Theoretical and Empirical Connections (Sílvia Gomes)....Pages 49-69
Prison in Spain and Social Exclusion Policies (Elisa García-España)....Pages 71-84
The Perceptions of Foreign Organized Crime Groups Inside Portuguese Prisons: Cross-Problems on “First Capital Command PCC” Brazilian Leading Cases and Constructed Stereotypes (Maria João Guia, Renata Almeida da Costa)....Pages 85-98
Contested Terrains and Incubators of Violence: Carceral Establishments in Democratic Brazil (Maria-Fátima Santos)....Pages 99-114
Foreign National Women Arrested for Drug Trafficking: A Dynamic Socio-Penal Portrait (Raquel Matos, Manuela Ivone Cunha, Joana Santos)....Pages 115-127
Permeable Prison Walls: Social Relationships, Symbolic Violence and Reproduction of Inequalities (Rafaela Granja)....Pages 129-145
The Evolution of Detaining Accompanied Migrant Minors Without a Residence Permit in Belgium (Lars Breuls, Steven De Ridder)....Pages 147-159
Finding a Way Out of Prison: Portugal, A Collaborative Model (António Pedro Dores, Nuno Henrique Pontes, Arianna Silvestri, Ricardo Loureiro)....Pages 161-177
