Imprisoning resistance : unlocking accounts of state power in the Jika Jika High-Security Unit /
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| Author / Creator: | Carlton, Bree. |
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| Imprint: | Sydney : Institute of Criminology Press, 2007. |
| Description: | ix, 292 p. : 21 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Institute of Criminology monograph series |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6668524 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Prologue
- Introduction
- Modern High-Security in Australia
- Politics of Modern High-Security
- Disciplinary Power, Resistance and High-Security
- Cultures of Violence and High-Security
- Official Responses to Disorder, Death and Institutional Crisis
- Book Overview
- Part 1. Power and Resistance
- Chapter 1.
- Polarisation, Power and Prisoner Resistance in the 1970s
- Introducing Power and Resistance in H Division
- Prisoner Representations of Violence and Resistance
- Politics of Maximum-Security Classification
- 'H for Hell': Two Versions of H Division
- Jenkinson Inquiry and the Power of 'Official Truth-Making'
- 1978 Prisoner Rebellion and The Ombudsman's Report
- Legacy of H Division
- Chapter 2.
- Official Beginnings of the Jika Jika High-Security Unit
- Psychological Control and Coercion
- Jika Jika High-Security Complex: Philosophy, Design, Structure
- The Official Opening
- Troubled Beginnings: Jika Jika and the Challinger Report
- Official Classification Procedures
- The Physical Impact
- Prisoner Management, Placement and Privileges
- Absence of Adequate Programs and Useful Work for Prisoners
- From Jika Jika to K Division: Concealing Institutional Fractures
- Chapter 3.
- Prisoner Accounts of Survival in the 'Pressure-Can'
- Experiencing Power: Prisoner Accounts
- Jika Jika: The 'Mind Games Capital of Pentridge'
- Sensation of 'Being Buried Alive': 'R&A' and Classification
- Exerting Physical Power and Discipline in the Jika Regime
- Chapter 4.
- 'Rebelling Against the Dictatorial Regime in Jika'
- Conceptualising Power and Resistance as Institutional Text
- Conceptualising Resistance in Jika
- Transgression and Resistance in Jika
- Power Meets Resistance: A Crisis-Inducing Cycle
- Part 2. Concealing Crisis
- Chapter 5.
- Deaths of John Williams and Sean Downie
- Reconstructing the Case Studies of Downie and Williams
- Flashpoint: Sean Downie 24 August 1987
- Sean Downie: An Official Summary of Events
- Prison Officer Representations
- Prisoner Representations
- Downie Family and Other Representations
- Chapter 6.
- Exonerating Institutional Liability
- Investigating Prisoner Deaths in Custody
- The Coronial Inquest as 'Public' or 'Official' Inquiry?
- Imprisoning Prisoner 'Truths'
- Prisoner Allegations and the Matter of Dixon-Jenkins
- The Autopsy and Consideration of Forensic Evidence
- Use of Expert Forensic Opinions
- Role of Forensic Experts in Post-Death Investigations
- 'The 3.55pm Cell Visit'
- Further Internal and External Inquiries
- 1990 Murray Inquiry
- Chapter 7.
- Official Responses to the Jika Fire
- Events Preceding the October Fire
- Official Images of the Jika Five
- Official Discrediting of Prisoner Evidence
- Re-defining the Coroner's Powers
- Hallenstein's Findings
- Investigating the Inquest
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
