Beschreibung:
This book offers the first ethnographic account of prison managers in England. It explores how globalised changes, in particular managerialism, have intersected with local occupational cultures, positioning managers as micro-agents in the relationship between the global and local that characterises late modernity.
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. A New Approach to Understanding Prison Managers.- Chapter 3. "...It Just Happened": Becoming a Prison Manager.- Chapter 4. "I Wouldn't Ask You To Do Something I Wouldn't Do Myself": Prison Managers and Prison Office Culture.- Chapter 5. "Our Core Business": Prison Managers, Hard Performance Monitoring and Managerialism.- Chapter 6. "...They've Got an Axe to Grind": Prison Managers, Soft Performance Monitoring and Managerialism.- Chapter 7. "We Haven't Quite Been Turned Into Robots Yet": The Role of Individuality and Subjectivity in Prison Management.- Chapter 8. The Hidden Injuries of Prison Management.- Chapter 9. Prison Managerialism and Beyond.- Afterword. "It's a New Way, But... What Have They Lost?": Prison Managerialism in an Age of Austerity.