At Work in the Iron Cage: The Prison As a Gendered Organization

Agha, Suzanne; Steffensmeire, Darrell

doi:10.1177/009430610503400220

Cited by 2 publications

(1 citation statement)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…La prison apparaît comme une « organisation genrée » 11 , s'appuyant sur des conceptions codifiées du masculin et du féminin qu'elle contribue à reproduire (Acker 1990(Acker et 1992Britton 2000Britton et 2003. Ainsi, les dispositifs disciplinaires mis en oeuvre dans les établissements pour femmes relèvent moins d'une logique sécuritaire, omniprésente chez les hommes, que de l'exercice de formes de contrôle social plus informelles et diffuses, qui n'en sont pas moins puissantes.…”

Section: Des Représentations Sexuées Du Risqueunclassified

Genre et lutte contre la ‘radicalisation’. La gestion sexuée du ‘risque’ religieux en prison

Béraud¹,

Rostaing

Galembert

2017

Cahiers Du Genre

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

L’implication de femmes dans un projet d’attentat à Paris en septembre 2016, ainsi que les retours de Syrie, semblent conduire les autorités pénitentiaires à repenser la politique de lutte contre la ‘radicalisation’, qui ne concernait jusqu’à présent que les hommes détenus. Pour situer ce possible changement de référentiel, on se propose de revenir sur un matériau ethnographique recueilli en 2011-2012 à l’occasion d’une enquête sur la religion en prison dans huit établissements pénitentiaires, dont trois établissements accueillant des femmes. On montre ainsi comment la façon dont est pensée la violence des femmes, mais également dont est conçue leur détention, conditionne fortement les représentations qui sont attachées à leur religiosité et en particulier le caractère jugé peu menaçant de cette dernière. On s’attache également à mettre au jour certains des effets de cette gestion sexuée du ‘risque’ religieux en prison.

show abstract

Section: Des Représentations Sexuées Du Risqueunclassified

Genre et lutte contre la ‘radicalisation’. La gestion sexuée du ‘risque’ religieux en prison

Béraud¹,

Rostaing

Galembert

2017

Cahiers Du Genre

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Individual and institutional demographic and organizational climate correlates of perceived danger among federal correctional officers

Garcia¹

2008

PsycEXTRA Dataset

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Correctional work is dangerous due to the volatile and often unpredictable environment in which individuals work. Although studied extensively in the policing literature, perceived danger has received far less empirical attention as an outcome in studies of correctional officers.The current work sought to extend earlier work in corrections by: learning whether views on this outcome varied across institutions; observing if specific factors proved relevant at both the officer and institutional levels; and learning, if a variable was relevant at both levels, if the direction and strength of its impact was similar across levels. Using a conceptual framework similar to that for studying fear of crime among residential populations, the current work sought to gauge the influence of the described predictors after controlling for perceptions of the risk of inmate assault. Multilevel models were applied to data from the 2001 to 2005 Federal Bureau of Prisons Prison Social Climate Survey administered yearly to all categories of correctional personnel in 114 institutions. These analyses used surveys from correctional officers (total n = 2,954; minimum n / year = 492) in 106 institutions. Results showed significant variation across institutions in average perceived danger. Demographic composition of officers mattered, as did their average views about different aspects of social climate, and their average perceptions of assault risk. After iv This document is a research report submitted to the U.S. Department of Justice. This report has not been published by the Department. Opinions or points of view expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.controlling for all these factors, significant between-institution differences on average perceived danger remained. Several demographic variables influenced perceived danger in ways that paralleled the fear of crime literature. Female, African-American, andHispanic officers perceived more danger. Two features of perceived organizational climate were associated with less perceived danger. These impacts persisted after controlling for job stress and dissatisfaction at the respective levels.Results confirmed that individual differences in perceived danger strongly linked to both race and gender, even after controlling for job stress and dissatisfaction. Impacts of racial composition at the institutional level parallel impacts of individual officer race, demonstrating for the first time in the corrections literature such multilevel impacts of officer race and racial composition on perceived danger. The direction of officer gender impacts, however, varied depending on the level of analysis. v

show abstract

At Work in the Iron Cage: The Prison As a Gendered Organization

Cited by 2 publications

References 0 publications

Genre et lutte contre la ‘radicalisation’. La gestion sexuée du ‘risque’ religieux en prison

Genre et lutte contre la ‘radicalisation’. La gestion sexuée du ‘risque’ religieux en prison

Individual and institutional demographic and organizational climate correlates of perceived danger among federal correctional officers

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About