As punitiveness and the growth of imprisonment become increasingly accepted around the world, Carla Reevess book is particularly salient in refocusing on the lived experience of imprisonment revealing the profound human consequences. By drawing upon a range of international ethnographic and qualitative research, this book offers a sense of what it feels like to be in prison, the nature of the everyday social dynamics, and illuminates its entanglement with wider issues of globalisation, power and inequality. These are subjects that are essential for academics, students and practitioners.
Jamie Bennett, Governor, HMP Grendon & Springhill, UK
Only a few years ago, senior scholars were bemoaning the death of prison ethnography and the absence of insight into daily life within custodial institutions. This volume not only proves that high quality research on the nature of confinement is thriving. By detailing the experiences of groups including sex offenders, the wrongly convicted and female prisoners, and by covering contexts including approved premises, young offender institutions and prisons from a range of jurisdictions, it also demonstrates that the scope of prison research has broadened considerably. This collection brings together a very impressive range of scholars and studies and represents an exceptionally strong and timely adornment to the literature on prisons and imprisonment.
Ben Crewe, Deputy Director of the Prisons Research Centre and Director of the M.St. Penology Programme at University of Cambridge, UK
After decades of largely ignoring mass incarceration, academic penology is undergoing something of a renaissance in recent years. This genuinely international collection of studies conducted by some of the most exciting new researchers in this new movement strikes at the heart of the matter by asking the crucial questions: What is incarceration and what does it do? It should be required reading.
Shadd Maruna, Dean, Rutgers School of Criminal Justice, USA
Experiencing Imprisonment
The growing body of work on imprisonment, desistance and rehabilitation has mainly focused on policies and treatment programmes and how they are delivered. Experiencing Imprisonment reflects recent developments in research that focus on the active role of the offender in the process of justice. Bringing together experts from around the world and presenting a range of comparative critical research relating to key themes of the pains of imprisonment, stigma, power and vulnerability, this book explores the various ways in which offenders relate to the justice systems and how these relationships impact the nature and effectiveness of their efforts to reduce offending.
Experiencing Imprisonment showcases cutting-edge international and comparative critical research on how imprisonment is experienced by those people living and working within imprisonment institutions in North America, Australia and Northern, Central and Eastern Europe, as well as Scandinavia. The research explores the subjective experience of imprisonment from the perspective of a variety of staff and prisoner groups, including juveniles, adult female and male prisoners, older prisoners, sex offenders, wrongfully convicted offenders and newly released prisoners.
Offering a unique view of what it is like to be a prisoner or a prison officer, the chapters in this book argue for a prioritisation of understanding the subjective experiences of imprisonment as essential to developing effective and humane systems of punishment. This is essential reading for academics and students involved in the study of criminology, penology and the sociology of imprisonment. It will also be of interest to Criminal Justice practitioners and policymakers around the globe.
Carla Reeves is Subject Leader in Criminology at the University of Huddersfield, UK. Prior to joining the University in 2007 Dr Reeves was a Research Officer at Bangor University, during which time she also worked in a Probation Approved Premises (semi-secure hostel accommodation for high risk offenders being released from prison). Her research interests centre around sex offender management and networks (both formal and informal, virtual and real world) with a particular focus on offenders subjective personal and social experiences of such interactions within, and because of, criminal justice institutions. Alongside this is an allied interest in reintegration and resettlement and offenders active engagement with these processes.
Routledge frontiers of criminal justice
1 Sex Offenders, Punish, Help, Change or Control?
Theory, policy and practice explored
Edited by Jo Brayford, Francis Cowe and John Deering
2 Building Justice in Post-Transition Europe
Processes of criminalisation within Central and Eastern European societies
Edited by Kay Goodall, Margaret Malloch and Bill Munro
3 Technocrime, Policing and Surveillance
Edited by Stphane Leman-Langlois
4 Youth Justice in Context
Community, compliance and young people
Mairead Seymour
5 Women, Punishment and Social Justice
Human rights and penal practices
Margaret Malloch and Gill McIvor
6 Handbook of Policing, Ethics and Professional Standards
Edited by Allyson MacVean, Peter Spindler and Charlotte Solf
7 Contrasts in Punishment
An explanation of Anglophone excess and Nordic exceptionalism
John Pratt and Anna Eriksson
8 Victims of Environmental Harm
Rights, recognition and redress under national and international law
Matthew Hall
9 Doing Probation Work
Identity in a criminal justice occupation
Rob C. Mawby and Anne Worrall
10 Justice Reinvestment
Can the criminal justice system deliver more for less?
Chris Fox, Kevin Albertson and Kevin Wong
11 Epidemiological Criminology
Theory to practice
Edited by Eve Waltermaurer and Timothy A. Akers
12 Policing Cities
Urban securitization and regulation in a 21st century world
Edited by Randy K. Lippert and Kevin Walby
13 Restorative Justice in Transition
Kerry Clamp
14 International Perspectives on Police Education and Training
Edited by Perry Stanislas
15 Understanding Penal Practice
Edited by Ioan Durnescu and Fergus McNeill
16 Perceptions of Criminal Justice
Vicky De Mesmaecker
17 Transforming Criminal Justice?
Problem-solving and court specialization
Jane Donoghue
18 Policing in Taiwan
From authoritarianism to democracy
Liqun Cao, Lanying Huang and Ivan Y. Sun
19 Reparation for Victims of Crimes against Humanity
The healing role of reparation
Edited by Jo-Anne M. Wemmers
20 Victims of Violence and Restorative Practices
Finding a voice
Tinneke Van Camp
21 Long-Term Imprisonment and Human Rights
Edited by Kirstin Drenkhahn, Manuela Dudeck and Frieder Dnkel
22 Working within the Forensic Paradigm
Cross-discipline approaches for policy and practice
Edited by Rosemary Sheehan and James Ogloff
23 Positive Criminology
Edited by Natti Ronel and Dana Segev
24 Inmates Narratives and Discursive Discipline in Prison
Rewriting personal histories through cognitive behavioral programs in prison
Jennifer A. Schlosser
