Doing Prison Work: the Public and Private Lives of Prison Officers

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This book provides a much-needed sociological account of the social world of the English prison officer, making an original contribution to our understanding of the inner life of prisons in general and the working lives of prison officers in particular. As well as revealing how the job of the prison officer - and of the prison itself - is accomplished on a day-to-day basis, the book explores not only what prison officers do but also how they feel about their work. In focusing on how prison officers feel about their work this book makes a number of interesting revelations - about the essentiall.  Read more... Abstract: This title provides a sociological account of the social world of the English prison officer, making an original contribution to our understanding of the inner life of prisons in general and the working lives of prison officers in particular.  Read more... Content: Front cover Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Setting the scene: the research in context 2. Research methods 3. Learning the rules, managing feelings: becoming a prison officer 4. Them and us? How officers see prisons 5. Emotion and performance: the presentation of self in prisons 6. When things go wrong: suicide and conflict 7. How prison officers see their work, themselves and eachother 8. Bringing it all back home? Stories of husbands and wices 9. Conclusions: doing prison work Appendix References Index Back cover.