Convict Criminology

Inside and Out

Rod Earle (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2017
Policy Press (Verlag)
978-1-4473-2365-5 (ISBN)

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This is the first single authored book to trace the emergence of Convict Criminology and explore its relevance beyond the USA to the UK and other parts of Europe. It presents uniquely reflexive scholarship combining personal experience with critical perspectives on contemporary penalogy, focussing explicitly on men.

Convict criminology is the study of criminology by those who have first-hand experience of imprisonment. This is the first single-authored book to trace the emergence of convict criminology and explore its relevance beyond the USA to the UK and other parts of Europe.

Addressing epistemological issues of ‘insider research’, it presents uniquely reflexive scholarship combining personal experience with critical perspectives on contemporary penality. Taking a gendered approach and focusing explicitly on men, it covers:

•the way prisoners, ex-prisoners and prison research contribute to criminological knowledge

•historical figures in criminology whose prison experiences are rarely recognised

•the way racism, colonialism and class shape penal experience and social worlds

Drawing from his own experience of imprisonment, prison research and criminology, the author demonstrates how this experience can expand the criminological imagination. It is a novel and compelling account for students, teachers, academics and penal practitioners. It will inform, educate and entertain anyone working in criminal justice, the legal and para-legal professions and those with an interest in social justice.

Rod Earle is Senior Lecturer in Youth Justice in the Faculty of Health & Social Care at The Open University, UK. Prior to his academic career Rod worked as a printer in Norwich and as a youth justice social worker for the London Borough of Lambeth. In 1982 he served a three-month prison sentence in HMP Norwich.

Preface ~ Andrew Millie

Foreword by Shadd Maruna

A personal introduction

Born in the USA: Early Origins of Convict Criminology

US Convict Criminology comes of age

European origins, perspectives and experiences of Convict Criminology

Indelible Stains: Convict Criminology and Criminal Records

Race, Class, Gender: Agitate, Educate, Organise

Methodologies, Epistemologies, Ontologies

Concluding with Convictions!

References

Erscheinungsdatum	28.09.2017
Reihe/Serie	New Horizons in Criminology
Zusatzinfo	Not illustrated
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4473-2365-3 / 1447323653
ISBN-13	978-1-4473-2365-5 / 9781447323655
Zustand	Neuware