- Title
- The ‘inmate code’ in flux: A normative system and extralegal governance in a Ukrainian prison
- Creator
- Symkovych, Anton
- Subject
- Extralegal governance, Inmate code, Prison
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- Article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10210/279514
- Identifier
- uj:30018
- Identifier
- Citation: Symkovych, A. 2018. The ‘inmate code’ in flux: A normative system and extralegal governance in a Ukrainian prison.
- Description
- Abstract: Building on a semi-ethnographic study in a Ukrainian prison, the first research of its kind in the region, I discuss the normative and governance system of a post-Communist prisoner world. I offer empirical support for Skarbek’s theory of prison social order by demonstrating how prisoner extralegal governance evolves along with the changing structures in and outside the prison to sustain a predictable and tolerable environment within a dehumanising and intrinsically volatile context. Nevertheless, prisoner self-governance, although generally fairly administered, is itself brutal and institutionalises inequality. As the history of prison ‘societies’ in the US and UK demonstrates, far-reaching penal policy changes can radically transform the inner prison world...
- Language
- English
- Rights
- ©2018, authors
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