TY  - BOOK
AU  - Young, Christopher
AB  - Prisons are a rich source for literary narratives – but what narratives do prison officers  themselves construct about working in a prison and their place in it? How do they talk about  their daily work with prisoners, justify disciplinary action or assess prison as a form of  punishment in general? As ontological narratives which position and give rise to the self,  prison officers’ narratives are highly relevant, as they shape officers’ daily practice, the  working of the prison as an organisation and ultimately the way prisoners are treated.  Christopher Young combines field notes and interviews from a Swiss prison to reconstruct a  typology of prison officers’ narratives of the self. One casts the officer as a tragic hero  fighting to prevent the decline of punishment, another positions the officer as a lone fighter  attempting to overcome the therapy-adverse inertia of the prison system. As the study shows,  this inherent tension ultimately contributes to the failure of the attempt to establish a  therapeutic detention unit.  Prison officers’ narratives are viewed as shared narratives which cite and echo legal and  media discourses, which the author in turn reconstructs on the basis of a discussion of the  history of Swiss penal law and practice and a recent corpus of newspaper articles
DO  - 10.33058/seismo.30749
ID  - OAPEN ID: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/42091
ID  - OAPEN ID: 48621
KW  - justice
KW  - penal system
KW  - social politics
KW  - prison
KW  - prison officers
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/42091/1/oa_9783037777497_young.pdf
LA  - German
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/28043
PB  - Seismo
PY  - 2018
SN  - 9783037777497
TI  - Narrative im Justizvollzug : Identitäten von Mitarbeitenden, medialer Diskurs und historischer Kontext
ER  - 
