Conviviality and Survival: Co-Producing Brazilian Prison Order
- Submitting institution
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The University of Westminster
- Unit of assessment
- 20 - Social Work and Social Policy
- Output identifier
- q3w41
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9783319922096
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book provides a meticulous in-depth account of how informal self-governing prisons operate in Brazil. It is the culmination of 10 years of careful study and prison-based ethnographic fieldwork. This entailed approximately 60 visits to 40 prisons across ten of the country's 26 states and extensive negotiation with Brazilian police, prison authorities, and government institutions, including Secretary for prisons in the state of Parana. Trusting relationships were also built over time with inmates and gangs such as the NGO FBAC (Brazilian Fraternity for the Assistance of Convicts) which runs approximately 40 prisons in Brazil, facilitating the book’s unique insider perspective.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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