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      The Prisoner
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      The Prisoner

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      The Prisoner

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      The Prisoner book

      Edited ByBen Crewe, Jamie Bennett
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2011
      eBook Published 23 November 2011
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203153826
      Pages 184
      eBook ISBN 9780203153826
      Subjects Social Sciences
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      Crewe, B., & Bennett, J. (Eds.). (2011). The Prisoner (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203153826

      ABSTRACT

      Little of what we know about prison comes from the mouths of prisoners, and very few academic accounts of prison life manage to convey some of its most profound and important features: its daily pressures and frustrations, the culture of the wings and landings, and the relationships which shape the everyday experience of being imprisoned.

      The Prisoner aims to redress this by foregrounding prisoners’ own accounts of prison life in what is an original and penetrating edited collection. Each of its chapters explores a particular prisoner sub-group or an important aspect of prisoners’ lives, and each is divided into two sections: extended extracts from interviews with prisoners, followed by academic commentary and analysis written by a leading scholar or practitioner. This structure allows prisoners’ voices to speak for themselves, while situating what they say in a wider discussion of research, policy and practice. The result is a rich and evocative portrayal of the lived reality of imprisonment and a poignant insight into prisoners’ lives.

      The book aims to bring to life key penological issues and to provide an accessible text for anyone interested in prisons, including students, practitioners and a general audience. It seeks to represent and humanize a group which is often silent in discussions of imprisonment, and to shine a light on a world which is generally hidden from view.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|12 pages

      Prisoner backgrounds and biographies

      ByJamie Bennett

      chapter 2|14 pages

      Custody, care and staff–prisoner relationships

      chapter 3|13 pages

      Prison culture and the prisoner society

      ByBen Crewe

      chapter 4|13 pages

      Identity and adaptation in prison

      ByYvonne Jewkes

      chapter 5|14 pages

      Vulnerability, struggling and coping in prison

      ByAlison Liebling

      chapter 6|12 pages

      Prisoners and their families

      ByRachel Condry

      chapter 7|13 pages

      Children and young people in custody

      ByRod Morgan

      chapter 8|11 pages

      Ageing prisoners

      ByNatalie Mann

      chapter 9|14 pages

      Women prisoners

      ByAbigail Rowe

      chapter 10|14 pages

      Cultural diversity, ethnicity and race relations in prison

      ByCoretta Phillips, Rod Earle

      chapter 11|11 pages

      Rehabilitation, generativity and mutual aid

      BySteve Barlow, Shadd Maruna
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