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OverviewAn intimate, first-hand account of the emotional and physical experience of doing time in jail and the strategies for enduring it.Jails are the principal people-processing machines of the criminal justice system. Mostly they hold persons awaiting trial who cannot afford or have been denied bail. Although jail sentences max out at a year, some spend years awaiting trial in jail-especially in counties where courts are jammed with cases. City and county jails, detention centers, police lockups, and other temporary holding facilities are regularly overcrowded, poorly funded, and the buildings are often in disrepair. American jails admit over ten million people every year, but very little is known about what happens to them while they're locked away.Indefinite is an ethnographic study of a California county jail that reflects on what it means to do jail time and what it does to men. Michael L. Walker spent several extended spells in jail, having been arrested while trying to pay parking tickets in graduate school. This book is an intimate account of his experience and in it he shares the routines, rhythms, and subtle meanings that come with being incarcerated. Walker shows how punishment in jail is much more than the deprivation of liberties. It is, he argues, purposefully degrading. Jail creates a racial politics that organizes daily life, moves men from clock time to event time, normalizes trauma, and imbues residents with substantial measures of vulnerability. Deputies used self-centered management styles to address the problems associated with running a jail, some that magnified individual conflicts to potential group conflicts and others that created divisions between residents for the sake of control. And though not every deputy indulged, many gave themselves over to the pleasures of punishment. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Michael L. Walker (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 24.20cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 16.50cm Weight: 0.608kg ISBN: 9780190072865ISBN 10: 0190072865 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 19 May 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents"Introduction: Palace de Excreta 1. Constructing Criminals 2. The Rep System 3. The Politics 4. Jailing 5. Time 6. Sleep 7. Care 8. ""Court Bodies"" 9. Deputies 10. It Is What It Is Epilogue Notes References Index"ReviewsIndefinite argues that legitimate change in the way this country deals with people accused of breaking the law would have to begin with the recognition of their humanity. --The Arts Fuse Author InformationMichael L. Walker is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. His broad research interests include social control, stratification, and inequality, which he pursues through studies of the criminal justice system. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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