Indefinite : doing time in jail / Michael L. Walker.
Author/creator |
Walker, Michael L., 1952- |
Other author/creator | Oxford University Press. |
Format | Electronic and Book |
Publication Info | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022] |
Description | xi, 267 pages ; 25 cm |
Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online Sociology |
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Abstract | "Indefinite is the first major ethnographic study of American jails since the advent of racialized mass incarceration. The author was confined in a southern California county jail system during which time, he conducted what he calls an organic ethnography of jail life. The resulting study is an investigation of the vagaries of jail living, the relationship between custodial deputies and penal residents, the endurance strategies residents employed to protect their emotional selves from being overwhelmed by the nature of jail punishment, and consequences of extremes of vulnerability, uncertainty, and penal time. Indefinite toggles between what is peculiar to jail time and what is familiar in broader social life to develop general concepts, sensitizing schemes, and theories about social life that expand beyond the specifics of jail without reducing jail to a mere case study"-- Provided by publisher. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-260) and index. |
Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
Genre/form | Electronic books. |
LCCN | 2021031377 |
ISBN | 9780190072865 (hardback) |
ISBN | (epub) |
ISBN | (online) |
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