CRISS researcher publishes on experiencing imprisonment
Mon, 14 Dec 2015 08:57:00 GMT
Dr Carla Reeves, Principal Lecturer in Criminology, has just published an edited volume exploring the experiences of those living and working in carceral institutions. The book, entitled Experiencing Imprisonment: Research on the experience of living and working in carceral institutions, is published by Routledge, as part of its Frontiers of Criminal Justice Series.
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, Dr Reeves’s collection explores the 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 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.
The book has already attracted positive reviews. It has been described by leading criminologist Professor Shadd Maruna (Rutgers School of Criminal Justice) as a ‘genuinely international collection of studies conducted by some of the most exciting new researchers in this new movement [that] 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'.
