Living on the edge: Juvenile justice work as a form of edgework

Stout, Brian; Hosseinzadeh, Hassan; Herbert, James

doi:10.1007/s10611-017-9740-0

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“…These works have fleshed out the occupational dynamics and professional culture of correctional officers, and several aspects of this occupation are now well documented. Most officers are male (Britton, 2003), and many enjoy high-risk edgework (Stout et al, 2018). Unsurprisingly, this results in a widespread culture of hypermasculinity (Ricciardelli, 2019), which manifests in specific officer codes, or more generally as a workplace habitus (Arnold et al, 2012;Lerman & Page, 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

The Floating Signifier of “Radicalization”: Correctional Officers’ Perceptions of Prison Radicalization

Schultz

Bucerius

Haggerty

2020

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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The number of people incarcerated for extremist actions has grown over the past decades. The resulting prospect of prison radicalization has contributed to widespread risk responsibilitization among prison staff. Low-level correctional officers now perceive themselves as being directly responsible for detecting radicalization on their units. Consequently, radicalization has become a meaningful topic for prison staff, one which shapes their daily actions and perceptions. However, officers’ understandings of radicalization may not conform with accepted definitions. Through 131 semistructured interviews with Canadian correctional officers, we demonstrate how radicalization functions as a floating signifier in prison, influencing officer thought and behavior in meaningful ways while eluding easy definition. Officers redefine radicalization to fit interpretive frames around religion and race, gang membership, and mental health, irrespective of whether stereotypical extremists exist in a given prison. We demonstrate how radicalization, when operating as a floating signifier, can significantly influence officers’ perceptions and front-line prison operations.

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Section: Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%