The Palgrave handbook of prison ethnography / edited by Deborah H. Drake, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, The Open University, UK, Rod Earle, Lecturer in Youth Justice, The Open University, UK, Jennifer Sloan, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Drake, Deborah H., editor.

Earle, Rod, editor.

Sloan, Jennifer, 1985- editor.

Series:

Palgrave studies in prisons and penology.

Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisons.

Prisoners.

Imprisonment.

Corrections.

Ethnology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 514 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Ethnography provides an expansive overview of the challenges presented by qualitative, and particularly ethnographic, enquiry. The chapters reflect upon the means by which ethnographers aim to gain understanding, make sense of what they learn and the way they represent their finished work. The Handbook offers urgent insights relevant to current trends in the growth of imprisonment worldwide. In an era of mass incarceration, human-centric ethnography provides an important counter to quantitative analysis and the audit culture on which prisons are frequently judged. The Handbook is divided into four parts. Part I ('About Prison Ethnography') assesses methodological, theoretical and pragmatic issues related to the use of ethnographic and qualitative enquiry in prisons. Part II ('Through Prison Ethnography') considers the significance of ethnographic insights in terms of wider social or political concerns. Part III ('Of Prison Ethnography') analyses different aspects of the roles ethnographers take and how they negotiate their research settings. Part IV ('For Prison Ethnography') includes contributions that convincingly extend the value of prison ethnography beyond the prison itself. Bringing together contributions by some of the world's leading scholars in criminology and prison studies, this authoritative volume maps out new directions for future research. It will be an indispensable resource for practitioners, students, academics and researchers who use qualitative social research methods to further their understanding of prisons. .

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; General Introduction: What Ethnography Tells Us about Prisons and What Prisons Tell Us about Ethnography; Part I: About Prison Ethnography; Introduction to Part I; 1 Research 'Inside' Viewed from 'Outside': Reflections on Prison Ethnography; 2 Walking amongst the Graves of the Living: Reflections about Doing Prison Research from an Abolitionist Perspective; 3 Prisons Research beyond the Conventional: Dialogue, 'Creating Miracles' and Staying Sane in a Maximum-Security Prison

4 'Get In, Get Out, Go Back?': Transitioning from Prison Ethnography to Prison Policy Research in Russia5 Ethnography of Writings in Prison: Professional Power Struggles Surrounding a Digital Notebook in a Prison for Minors; 6 Closeness, Distance and Honesty in Prison Ethnography; 7 Going in Green: Reflections on the Challenges of 'Getting In, Getting On, and Getting Out' for Doctoral Prisons Researchers; Part II: Through Prison Ethnography; Introduction to Part II; 8 Performing Ethnography: Infiltrating Prison Spaces; 9 The Perfume of Sweat: Prison Research through Deleuzian Lenses

10 Ethnography: Exploring Methodological Nuances in Feminist Research with Men Incarcerated for Sexual Offences11 Writing Bad: Prison Ethnography and the Problem of 'Tone'; 12 Prison Ethnography at the Threshold of Race, Reflexivity and Difference; 13 Finding Secrets and Secret Findings: Confronting the Limits of the Ethnographer's Gaze; 14 Ethnographic Imagination in the Field of the Prison; Part III: Of Prison Ethnography; Introduction to Part III; 15 Insider Ethnography or the Tale of the Prison Governor's New Clothes; 16 Changing Hats: Transiting between Practitioner and Researcher Roles

17 'To Thine Own Self Be True': Having Faith in the Prison Researcher18 Situating the Self in Prison Research: Power, Identity and Epistemology; 19 Re-entry to Prison: Transition from HMP Researcher to 'Independent' Researcher; 20 The Ethnographic Practitioner; Part IV: For Prison Ethnography; Introduction to Part IV; 21 Global Prison Ethnography; 22 Accessing and Witnessing Prison Practice in Uganda; 23 Deviation and Limitations of (Prison) Ethnography: Postscript to Fieldwork in an Indian Prison; 24 Unique Position: Dual Identities as Prison Researcher and Ex-prisoner

25 Mixing Detention Cultures: The Belgian-Dutch CaseIndex

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

ISBN:

9781349680580

1349680583

OCLC:

910318715