'Con-viviality' and beyond – identity, ethnicity and social relations in a young men's prison

Earle, Rod and Phillips, Coretta (2010). 'Con-viviality' and beyond – identity, ethnicity and social relations in a young men's prison. In: Wetherell, Margaret ed. Identity in the 21st Century: New Trends in Changing Times. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave, pp. 120–138.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230245662_7

Abstract

This chapter explores the configuration of identity, social relations and ethnicity within the confines of a young men’s prison. The site of intense deprivations, referred to by Sykes (1958) as the ‘pains of imprisonment’, prisons gather together many of those people also bearing the pains of structural disenfranchisement and marginalisation which characterise deprived neighbourhoods (Wacquant, 2007).

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