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‘Carry on laughing and I’ll punish you as well!’: Humour, power, and relationship negotiation in a prison workshop (2025)
Journal Article

Drawing on a 10-month ethnographic study of a private prison in the UK, this paper examines how humour is used between prisoners and prison staff to negotiate working relationships in prison. We show how both the presence and absence of humour can sh... Read More about ‘Carry on laughing and I’ll punish you as well!’: Humour, power, and relationship negotiation in a prison workshop.