Resistance or friction
Understanding the significance of prisoners’ secondary adjustments
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12586722 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ashley T Rubin (0000-0002-8219-9951, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 23-42 |
| Publication date | 2014-07-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theoretical Criminology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1362-4806 • E-ISSN: 1461-7439 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1362480614543320 |
| OpenAlex | W2078090928 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 49 |
| References cited | 62 |
Scholars examining prisoners’ “secondary adjustments” have often emphasized prisoners’ “resistance” to the prison regime, particularly their agentic acts that frustrate the prison’s rules, goals, or functions. While these agency-centered accounts offer an important corrective to the understanding of prisons as totalizing institutions, they may go too far. I argue that scholars have overused (and misused) the term “resistance” to describe certain prisoner behaviors, creating both analytical and normative consequences. Instead, I suggest the concept of “friction” more accurately describes the reactive behaviors that occur when people find themselves in highly controlled environments
Agency (philosophy · Criminology · Normative · Political science · Prison · Resistance (ecology · Social science · Sociology · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Psychology · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending · Social Psychology
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