‘Doing’ coercion

Gariglio, Luigi

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“…Deeper questions as to the reasons for this situation also arise. Information, or deliberate deprivation of information, in prison can be a tool of coercion or manipulation (Gariglio, 2017). Information about bodies that are tasked with supporting the promotion of human rights in prison may be information that it is not desirable to share, especially when the bodies are not sufficiently visible themselves to provide the information.…”

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Towards a typology of prisoners’ awareness of and familiarity with prison inspection and monitoring bodies

Valk

Aizpurúa

Rogan

2021

European Journal of Criminology

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Inspection and monitoring bodies have an important role in the protection of prisoners’ rights. Although these bodies are seen as widely beneficial, there is limited research examining their operations in practice. This study addresses this gap in the existing literature by identifying unique profiles of prisoners based on their familiarity with prison oversight bodies. In addition, the relationship between profiles and key factors (personal characteristics, sentence-related variables and those related to life in prison) was examined using multinomial regression. Participants were 508 males randomly selected from three prisons in Ireland. Data were collected between November 2018 and February 2019, using self-administered surveys. Latent class analysis revealed four subgroups of prisoners characterized by distinct patterns of awareness and contact with prison oversight bodies: (1) Low familiarity (44.1 percent); (2) High awareness with low contact (26.4 percent); (3) High familiarity with the Visiting Committees but low with other oversight bodies (14.2 percent); and (4) High familiarity (15.4 percent). Notably, the largest group was the low familiarity group, and few prisoners belonged to the high familiarity group. Nationality, sentence length, confidence in staff and complaint usage were linked to class membership. The results of this study point to the importance of increasing awareness of inspection and monitoring bodies among prisoners in general, and among certain groups in particular.

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Towards a typology of prisoners’ awareness of and familiarity with prison inspection and monitoring bodies

Valk

Aizpurúa

Rogan

2021

European Journal of Criminology

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“…Officers might fear mafiosi for cultural reasons . Fear in general, not only specifically fear of mafiosi, was a common trait disclosed by many officers in one-on-one ethnographic interviews and chats that I conducted during prolonged participant observation (Gariglio 2018). Rookie officers could fear mafiosi simply because of the dangerousness that is culturally associated with mafia in general in popular culture, such as TV series, films, and novels as well as the myth of mafia power (Sciarrone 2009); this cultural fear was not very frequent as far as I recall, though.…”

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“…In an effort to address some disturbing memories and personal emotions that were not in focus in the ethnography (Gariglio 2018), I decided to “return” to the scene vicariously by reconsidering all those materials all over again. 4 By re-reading what I had written while watching again the images and the videos I had produced during fieldwork, and by reobserving and listening to the original video-recording focusing on this new disturbing memory of mine, I was able to experience differently what I had already experienced during fieldwork.…”

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“…If it had attracted me before, I would possibly have collected more data on the topic. However, my topic was demanding enough attention, focusing on lawful prison officers’ intervention and use of force during a so-called critical event (Gariglio 2016b, 2018).…”

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“… 5. Some of the new autoethnographic findings were introduced at the last minute in my forthcoming publication (Gariglio 2018). …”

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Challenging Prison Officers’ Discretion: “Good Reasons” to Treat Courteously Mafiosi in Custody in Italy

Gariglio

2018

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

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Prison ethnography has long touched on the central role of prison officers' discretion. Nowadays, a large number of sociologists and criminologists share the assumption that prison officers have de facto to resort to discretional decisions continuously to be able to translate the law into practice as they go about their job. This paper addresses the topic of prison officers' discretion differently by adopting Analytic Autoethnography and Emotional Recall. It outlines four officers' "good reasons" for cooperating with mafiosi in custody-treating them with good manner-rather than showing neutrality as they would do with "ordinary" prisoners. The main "good reasons" that ground mafiosi-officers relationships are: 1) reciprocal institutional recognition that Italian criminal justice and high-ranking mafia prisoners recognize one another; 2) mafioso capacity to help officers to "govern" fellow prisoners in practice; 3) the social embeddedness of the mafia both inside and outside prison and, lastly, 4) prison officers' fear of retaliation.

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Photo-elicitation in prison ethnography: Breaking the ice in the field and unpacking prison officers’ use of force

Gariglio

2016

Crime, Media, Culture

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Research papers on prisons have occasionally been illustrated with photographs. Yet rarely have visual methods been used critically in prison ethnography; image-making and images themselves have been used illustratively rather than as constitutive sites of knowledge production and, therefore, as objects to be interrogated in their own right by the researcher through, for example, participant collaboration. This paper focuses on the use of 'photo-elicitation' interviewing as a method for unpacking prison officers' use of force. The discussion is based on an ethnography conducted inside an Italian custodial complex that hosts both a forensic psychiatric hospital and a prison. Prison officers, psychiatric staff and prisoners were invited to discuss a number of images produced by the researcher-in the wing where they were working and/or living-representing the use of force and violence, thereby helping the researcher to address what Joe Sim (2008: 187) calls an 'inconvenient criminological truth' and at the same time giving the participants a voice.

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‘Doing’ coercion

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Towards a typology of prisoners’ awareness of and familiarity with prison inspection and monitoring bodies

Towards a typology of prisoners’ awareness of and familiarity with prison inspection and monitoring bodies

Challenging Prison Officers’ Discretion: “Good Reasons” to Treat Courteously Mafiosi in Custody in Italy

Photo-elicitation in prison ethnography: Breaking the ice in the field and unpacking prison officers’ use of force

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