Warehousing Violence / Edition 1

by Mark E. Fleisher

Overview

Warehousing Violence addresses an issue of major concern for the prison system - how to maintain order amongst violent criminals who are in prison for life. Fleisher, an anthropologist who served as a line corrections officer at a maximum security prison in California, points to the success of at least one experiment in non-violence among very violent people. Through a mixture of hands-on management, strict control and innovative prison industry, he shows how even the ‘hardest cases' can be kept relatively placid in prison.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803931237
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	02/01/1989
Series:	Frontiers of Anthropology , #3
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.59(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword - H Russell Bernard
Ethnography and Social Policy
USP-Lompoc
Systems of Control
Fieldwork
Rapport with Inmates
Life Inside
Sex
Scenes of Discipline
Scenes of Violence
Mainline Talk
Custody
A Growing American Industry