Consumption Under Restriction: Vulnerability and Resilience in a Maximum Security Prison
We investigate restrictions to choice through ethnographic investigation of a maximum security prison. This environment reveals depersonalization and commoditization that creates widespread perceptions of vulnerability. Findings reveal a complex relationship between these processes and reactions to renew humanness within and outside licit and illicit marketplaces of the prison economy.
Citation:
Ronald Hill and Justine Rapp (2014) ,"Consumption Under Restriction: Vulnerability and Resilience in a Maximum Security Prison", in NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 42, eds. June Cotte, Stacy Wood, and , Duluth, MN : Association for Consumer Research, Pages: 7-11.
Authors
Ronald Hill, Villanova University, USA
Justine Rapp, University of San Diego, USA
Volume
NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 42 | 2014
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