Multicultural Prison; Jellied Eels

Thinking Allowed

BBC

Science, Society & Culture

4.4 • 973 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2013

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The multicultural prison - a unique analysis of the daily lives and interactions of both white and ethnic minority inmates in the closed world of the modern, male prison. Diverse British nationals, foreign. and migrant populations, have been brought into close proximity within prison walls. How do they negotiate their tensions and differences? The criminologist, Coretta Phillips, talks to Laurie Taylor about her empirical research in Rochester Young Offenders' Institution and Maidstone Prison.

Also, reactions to jellied eels. Drawing on a series of ethnographic encounters collected while hanging around at a seafood stand in east London, Alex Rhys Taylor explores the relationship between individual expressions of distaste and the production of class, ethnic and generational forms of distinction.

Producer: Jayne Egerton.

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0:44.0	Hello. I once worked on a radio program which was produced by a man known to everyone in the office as Peg Leg.
0:50.0	This wasn't a reference for any disorder of his limbs, but rather to his predilection for relating
0:56.0	every programme item to some topical piece of news.
0:59.5	What's the peg?
1:00.5	He'd constantly demand.
1:01.9	What's the peg? Well well although I like to think that the
1:05.2	social science research we discuss on this program every week is relevant only
1:09.2	occasionally does it have the degree of immediate synchronicity with the latest news which could have satisfied old
1:14.8	peg leg.
1:16.3	But this week is different because I'd know who's finished reading an excellent new book about
1:20.4	the role played by ethnicity within English prisons when news came through of an incident
1:24.9	at Full Sutton Prison near York in which a prison officer had been held hostage by three Muslim
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