Narrative im Justizvollzug

dc.alternateIdentifier10.33058/seismo.30749
dc.creatorYoung, Christopher
dc.date2020-09-28T11:39:39Z
dc.date2020-09-28T11:39:39Z
dc.date2018
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-25T15:01:58Z
dc.descriptionPrisons 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
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dc.identifierOCN: 1202561356
dc.identifierhttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/42091
dc.identifierhttps://www.seismoverlag.ch/de/daten/narrative-im-justizvollzug/
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.dare.co.zw/handle/123456789/30443
dc.identifierdoi10.33058/seismo.30749
dc.languageger
dc.licenseConditionAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.pages381
dc.publisherSeismo
dc.relationDifferenzen
dc.relationisPublishedBy2a4e97ae-726c-4086-a24b-d4536718a4a8
dc.resourceTypebook
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.sourceoa_9783037777497_young.pdf
dc.subjectjustice
dc.subjectpenal system
dc.subjectsocial politics
dc.subjectprison
dc.subjectprison officers
dc.subjectthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology
dc.titleNarrative im Justizvollzug

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