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Ben Crewe

Print publication date: 2009

Print ISBN-13: 9780199577965

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: March 2012

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199577965.001.0001

Institutional Culture and Power in HMP Wellingborough

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(p. 49 ) 3 Institutional Culture and Power in HMP Wellingborough
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The Prisoner Society
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Ben Crewe

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199577965.003.0003

This chapter discusses the culture and general ethos of HMP Wellingborough, exploring how the ideologies and technologies of modern imprisonment were translated in practice. It analyses how power and culture took shape in prison by focusing on staff attitudes and practices and the prison's moral and emotional climate. It describes the relationships between staff and prisoners and explains some of the pressures and constraints on the prison's workforce.

Keywords:   HMP Wellingborough, imprisonment, power, culture, staff, prisoners, workforce

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