Conviviality and Survival Co-Producing Brazilian Prison Order /

• Main Author: Darke, Sacha (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
• Subjects: Corrections.; Punishment.; Critical criminology.; Crime-Sociological aspects.; Prison and Punishment.; Critical Criminology.; Crime and Society.

Brazilian authorities continuously fail to comply with international norms on minimal conditions of incarceration. Brazil's prison population has risen ten-fold since the country's return to democracy in the 1980s. Its prisons typically operate at double official capacity and with 100 pris...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Self-Governing Prison Communities
• 2. Law and Repression
• 3. The Northern Massacres
• 4. Surviving Through the Convívio
• 5. Managing Without Guards
• 6. Prison Gangs
• 7. Co-Producing Prison Order. .