“A perfect storm”: an ethnography of pactice in an adult male prison

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“A perfect storm”: an ethnography of pactice in an adult male prison

Prisons exist in an apparent cycle of crises that fail to achieve their stated aims: security, safety, and rehabilitation. This thesis utilises Bourdieu’s field theory to understand how these macro aims are mediated into practice in Clarendon, a local adult male prison in England, before and during...

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Main Author:	O'Mara, Oscar
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2024
Subjects:	Prison; Ethnography; Violence; Pandemic; Health
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/79449/

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