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来源

JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY ETHNOGRAPHY,Vol.48,Issue1,P.80-102

语言

英文

关键字

discretion; mafia; organized crime; prison officer; autoethnography; analytic autoethnography; emotional recall; AUTOETHNOGRAPHY

作者单位

[Gariglio, Luigi] Univ Turin, Sociol, Turin, Italy. Gariglio, L (reprint author), Univ Turin, Lungo Dora Siena 100, I-10100 Turin, Italy. E-Mail: luigi.gariglio@unito.it

摘要

Prison ethnography has long touched on the central role of prison officers' discretion. Nowadays, a large number of sociologists and criminologists share the assumption that prison officers have de facto to resort to discretional decisions continuously to be able to translate the law into practice as they go about their job. This paper addresses the topic of prison officers' discretion differently by adopting analytic autoethnography and Carolyn Ellis' emotional recall. It outlines four officers' good reasons for cooperating with mafiosi in custodytreating them with good mannerrather than showing neutrality as they would do with ordinary prisoners. The main good reasons that ground mafiosi-officers relationships are (1) reciprocal institutional recognition that Italian criminal justice and high-ranking mafia prisoners recognize one another; (2) mafioso capacity to help officers to govern fellow prisoners in practice; (3) the social embeddedness of the mafia both inside and outside prison; and, lastly, (4) prison officers' fear of retaliation.