Surviving incarceration : inside Canadian prisons

Ricciardelli, Rose 1979- (author.).

Summary: "Reveals the unnecessary and omnipresent violence in prisons, the heterogeneity of the prisoner population, and the realities that different prisoners navigate in order to survive."--Publishers website

Record details

ISBN: 9781771120531 (pbk.)
ISBN: 1771120533 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
xi, 245 pages ; 23 cm
Publisher: Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2014]
Copyright: ©2014

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction to federal corrections in Canada -- What about safety? -- Correctional services of Canada -- Provincial versus federal corrections -- Understanding the classification system: prisoner classification -- Hierarchy: Crime, sexuality, masculinity, and safety -- Violence and theory: the prison atmosphere -- Maximum-security prisons: controls within the institution -- High-medium-security prisons: controls within the institution -- Low-medium- and minimum-security prisons: controls within the institution -- The inmate code -- The sex offender stigma -- The personal side: coping, changing, for better or worse -- Resources and programming -- Industry growth: for better or worse.