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- Author: Toth Herta
- Publisher: Scholars' Press
- Year: 2014
- Pages: 224
- ISBN-10: 3639664582
- ISBN-13: 9783639664584
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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The case-study of a women's prison in Hungary explores the relationship between in-prison inequalities and the prison's strong emphasis on discipline. This project sets out to test Charles Tilly's hypotheses about organizations (re)producing durable inequalities; their tendency to take over categorical inequalities out of convenience, which helps them accomplish other organizational work (Tilly 1998). The analysis demonstrates that a robust inmate hierarchy is in place: members of the elite are the extended arm of prison administration, a group of women are stigmatized as bad girls and warehoused until the day of their release; and the great majority of women are made disciplined workers. This work introduces the sorting mechanisms - e.g. job placement; or placement to cell - and the categories the prison uses - e.g. reliability, presentability - to distribute women in the various subgroups. The analysis uncovers the often direct translation between these internal categories and external social inequalities related to ethnicity or sexual orientation.
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- Author: Toth Herta
- Publisher: Scholars' Press
- Year: 2014
- Pages: 224
- ISBN-10: 3639664582
- ISBN-13: 9783639664584
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
The case-study of a women's prison in Hungary explores the relationship between in-prison inequalities and the prison's strong emphasis on discipline. This project sets out to test Charles Tilly's hypotheses about organizations (re)producing durable inequalities; their tendency to take over categorical inequalities out of convenience, which helps them accomplish other organizational work (Tilly 1998). The analysis demonstrates that a robust inmate hierarchy is in place: members of the elite are the extended arm of prison administration, a group of women are stigmatized as bad girls and warehoused until the day of their release; and the great majority of women are made disciplined workers. This work introduces the sorting mechanisms - e.g. job placement; or placement to cell - and the categories the prison uses - e.g. reliability, presentability - to distribute women in the various subgroups. The analysis uncovers the often direct translation between these internal categories and external social inequalities related to ethnicity or sexual orientation.
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