Publication

cjm 91: Prison ethnography

Monday, 25 March 2013

Deborah H Drake and Rod Earle are the guest editors of the themed section.

Articles in the themed section are based on an Open Univerity conference, 'Resisting the Eclipse: An International Symposium on Prison Ethnography', held at the International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research. Contributors consider the way to open the closed world of prisons to wider scrutiny.

Topical articles include Peter Squires on the challenges to critical research at a time of exclusionary research protocols, David Wood on the consumerist thinking underlying the government's 2012 Swift and Sure Justice White Paper, and Rod Morgan on the future of the magistracy, plus highlights from Pat Carlen's 2012 Eve Saville lecture.

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In this edition

Editorial

Roger Grimshaw introduces this issue of cjm

By Roger Grimshaw

Research prevention and the zombie university

Peter Squires explores the challenges to critical criminological research in an age of market positivism and exclusionary research protocols

By Peter Squires

Minority parties and the changing politics of criminal justice

Gavin Dingwall argues that it is important to study the policies of minority parties

By Gavin Dingwall

The magistracy: secure epitome of the Big Society?

Rod Morgan identifies threats to the future of the lay magistracy

By Rod Morgan

Swift and sure: McJustice for a consumer society

David Wood examines the underlying consumerist thinking in the government’s justice paper

By David Wood

On the inside: prison ethnography around the globe

Deborah H Drake and Rod Earle introduce the articles in the themed section

By Deborah H Drake and Rod Earle

What has prison ethnography to offer in an age of mass incarceration?

Yvonne Jewkes considers the importance of research in understanding the prison

By Yvonne Jewkes

Ethnographic imagination in the field of the prison

Lorna A Rhodes considers how the ‘telling details’ of prison life come into view through ethnographic practice

By Lorna A Rhodes

What do ethnographers do in prison?

Rod Earle reports on three papers from the symposium’s opening panel

By Rod Earle

Writing and reading a prison: making use of prisoner life stories

Ben Crewe considers the value of prisoner life stories as part of an ethnographic approach

By Ben Crewe

‘Integrity, always integrity’

Laura Piacentini argues for the importance of personal and researcher integrity in prison research

By Laura Piacentini

Identity and emotion in a high security prison

Alison Liebling considers prison research as emotional ‘edgework’

By Alison Liebling

Emotional engagements: on sinking and swimming in prison research and ethnography

Jennifer Sloan and Deborah H Drake consider the importance of processing the emotional dimensions of prisons research

By Jennifer Sloan and Deborah H Drake

Informal prison dynamics in Africa and Latin America

Chris Garces, Tomas Martin and Sacha Darke contend that research in men’s prisons demands a widening of theoretical perspectives and methodological repertoires

By Chris Garces, Tomas Martin and Sacha Darke

Prison spaces and beyond: the potential of ethnographic zoom

Mahuya Bandyopadhyay, Andrew M Jefferson and Thomas Ugelvik draw on research experiences in non-Western, non-Anglo American prisons to reflect on prison spaces

By Mahuya Bandyopadhyay, Andrew M Jefferson and Thomas Ugelvik

Prisons under the lens of ethnographic criticism

Gilles Chantraine advocates for ethnographies of the social uses of law in prisons

By Gilles Chantraine

Against rehabilitation: for reparative justice

Pat Carlen presents highlights from her 2012 Eve Saville Lecture

By Pat Carlen