Orden in prison: just a matter of security? Focus on women’s prisons
Abstract
This text belongs to a round table which offers a discussion with James B. Jacobs, author of the classic in sociology of prisons Stateville: The penitentiary in mass society, on the importance of his work 40 years later. This commentary considers the issue of balance between order and security in prisons. Focusing on women’s prisons, we think about the importance of order in prison, which is the relationship between order and security and it affects the rehabilitation purposes of the prison. We reflect how order and control are developed in women’s, which role order takes, even when there is not a big threat to security.Keywords
order, security, control, prisons, genderReferences
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