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.
In this edition
Peter Squires explores the challenges to critical criminological research in an age of market positivism and exclusionary research protocols
By Peter Squires
Gavin Dingwall argues that it is important to study the policies of minority parties
By Gavin Dingwall
Rod Morgan identifies threats to the future of the lay magistracy
By Rod Morgan
David Wood examines the underlying consumerist thinking in the government’s justice paper
By David Wood
Deborah H Drake and Rod Earle introduce the articles in the themed section
By Deborah H Drake and Rod Earle
Yvonne Jewkes considers the importance of research in understanding the prison
By Yvonne Jewkes
Lorna A Rhodes considers how the ‘telling details’ of prison life come into view through ethnographic practice
By Lorna A Rhodes
Rod Earle reports on three papers from the symposium’s opening panel
By Rod Earle
Ben Crewe considers the value of prisoner life stories as part of an ethnographic approach
By Ben Crewe
Laura Piacentini argues for the importance of personal and researcher integrity in prison research
By Laura Piacentini
Alison Liebling considers prison research as emotional ‘edgework’
By Alison Liebling
Jennifer Sloan and Deborah H Drake consider the importance of processing the emotional dimensions of prisons research
By Jennifer Sloan and Deborah H Drake
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
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
Gilles Chantraine advocates for ethnographies of the social uses of law in prisons
By Gilles Chantraine
Pat Carlen presents highlights from her 2012 Eve Saville Lecture
By Pat Carlen
