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Drawing on participatory action research conducted in Sierra Leone, Kosovo and the Philippines, Human Rights in Prisons analyses encounters between rights-based non-governmental organisations and prisons. It explores the previously under-researched perspectives of prison staff and prisoners on their lives and relationships.

This book explores and addresses body search practices in prison environments from different angles (criminology, sociology, human rights and law) and discusses such practices in different national contexts within Europe. Body searches are widely used in prison systems across the globe: they are perceived as indispensable to prevent forbidden substances, weapons or communication devices from entering the prison. However, these are also invasive and potentially degrading control techniques. It should not come as a surprise, then, that body searches are deeply contested security measures and that they have been widely debated and regulated. What makes theses control measures problematic in a prison context? How do these practices come to be regulated in an international and European context? How are rules translated into national law? To what extent are laws and rules respected, bent, circumvented and denied? And what does the future hold for body searches?

This book offers an incisive account of correctional officers¿ daily practices, their role and how they represent themselves in relation to the prison, and by extension, the state. Drawing on ethnographic research undertaken in an Italian prison, Doing Shifts explores how correctional officers¿ perspectives and shared views reproduce and reinforce working behaviors with specific administrative and bureaucratic features. It explores how global penal trends are enacted in a local context and how the prison systems plays into our understanding of institutional and administrative power. It advances the discussion on organizational and institutional power through the lens of social control and street-level bureaucracy literature. It also explores gender variations in the discretional use of correctional officers¿ power. This book has a cross-disciplinary appeal for criminologists, sociologists, anthropologists, and political scientists and to policy-makers.

This book provides a novel exploration of time and temporality in relation to punishment and criminal sanctioning. It goes beyond focussing on the prison to address punishment more broadly with contributions on punishment in the community (including after periods of imprisonment) and in areas of the criminal justice system which have typically received less attention such as prison transportation between prisons. The collection also includes a focus on temporality in criminal justice policy, and its potential impacts on speeding up justice, as well as the experiential nature of punishment. The book includes contributions from scholars in UK and Europe, with largely original research, and draws on the international literature. It hopes to encourage punishment scholars to consider how ideas from the sociology of time can inform their own research.

Given the over-involvement of young men in crime and young men¿s disproportionally high rates of reoffending, it is surprising that more research has not explored young men¿s experiences of prison. This book is based on the findings of a nine-month ethnographic case study of Hydebank Wood College, a young men¿s prison in Northern Ireland. It seeks to explore the complexity of gender construction and masculine performance during young adulthood, while also exposing and dissecting the turbulent social life of a young men¿s prison.In examining these themes, the book takes account of the unique social, economic, and political factors that impact young men in communities in Northern Ireland, paying particular attention to their feelings of powerlessness, marginalisation, and vulnerability, and the construction of identity in cultures defined by territorialism, violence, masculine stoicism, and an anti-authority code of ¿honour¿. The book follows the formation of masculinitiesthrough the prison gate and considers how the penal environment contributes to the continual shaping young men¿s identities. The book also adopts Gambettäs concept of ¿signalling¿ to examine how young men use different practices, such as language and embodiment, to communicate masculinity to their wider social audience. At the same time, it also considers the reluctance of young men to communicate about their sources of vulnerability.

This book uses empirical data gathered using ethnographic methods in two contrasting prisons to provide a rare insight into death and dying in prisons in the UK. The majority of deaths in prison custody in England and Wales result from natural causes, yet the experiences of people dying in prison and the impact of these deaths on the wider prison are under-researched areas. It provides a novel insight into the impact of deaths from natural causes on the prison as an institution and challenges existing work juxtaposing occupational philosophies of ¿care¿ and ¿control¿. It also identifies how end of life care is provided in prisons and the impact this has on culture and relationships shows how deaths from natural causes in prison custody ¿soften¿ prison regimes, culture and relationships. It speaks to an international audience by drawing on the global literature including from the US.

This book focuses on the emotional experience of imprisonment. In no uncertain terms: prisons seethe with emotions and feelings. Based on two empirically rigorous studies, this book analyses how prisoners attempt to adapt and control their emotions. It begins with an account of male and female prisoners held in medium-security prisons and then moves to the particular case of emotions in solitary confinement. There has been a turn towards emotions in criminology but this is the first book to centralize the subject of prisoner emotions in a detailed manner. The ethnographic study of feelings has much to contribute to broader debates about survival in prison and pathways to desistence. Most importantly, it emphasizes that 'full-blooded' depictions of prisoners belong at the heart of academic inquiry.

This book explores how prison life is normalized in different countries, with a critical and detailed look at ¿Scandinavian exceptionalism¿ ¿ the idea that Scandinavian prisons have exceptionally humane conditions ¿ and compares these prisons to ones in Belgium. It provides a more nuanced, systematic and contextualized comparison of normalization in two countries. Through analyzing policy and legislative documents, participant observation and interviews, it seeks to understand how normalization is implemented differently in prison legislation, policies and practices and compares the two societies for context. It also considers the material prison environment, security, the social environment and the use of time in prison. It provides insights into how normalization can be successfully and holistically implemented in both policy and practice, to contribute to a more ¿pure¿ form of liberty deprivation as punishment without too many unintended effects.

This two-volume, edited collection lays the groundwork for an international exploration of incarceration and generation, covering a range of geographic, judicial and administrative contexts of incarceration from contributors across a range of subjects. Volume II examines intergenerational relations issues within contexts of incarceration. It focuses on the intergenerational continuities in imprisonment; intergenerational justice and citizenship; the impacts of incarceration on multiple generations and within families; and media representations of the intergenerationality of incarceration. Volume I explores an array of experiences, dynamics, cultures, interventions, and impacts of incarceration in different generations. This collection speaks to academics in criminology, sociology, psychology, and law, and to practitioners and policymakers interested in incarceration.

This two-volume, edited collection lays the groundwork for an international exploration of incarceration and generation, cover a range of geographic, judicial and administrative contexts of incarceration from contributors across a range of subjects. Volume I explores an array of experiences, dynamics, cultures, interventions and impacts of incarceration in specific generations: childhood, youth and emerging adulthood, adulthood and older age. It covers topics such as: the expansion of the penal landscape; deprivation of liberty regarding children, the problem of unaccompanied migrant children; the incarceration of young adults and adults, exploring its impacts within and beyond incarceration and the consequences of imprisoning older populations. Volume II examines intergenerational relations issues within different contexts of incarceration. This collection discusses public policies and the role of the state and the citizen deprived of liberty. It speaks to academics in criminology, sociology, psychology, and law, and to practitioners and policymakers interested in incarceration.

The Older Prisoner seeks to situate the older prisoner from both a penological and gerontological perspective, organised around the following broad themes: the construction of the older prisoner, the physical prison world, the social prison world, surviving prison and giving meaning.

Chapter 1. Spiritual Life and the Rationalization of Violence: The State Within the State and Evangelical Order in a Venezuelan Prison; Luis Duno-Gottberg (Rice University, United States).Chapter 2. Criminalizing Youth in Latin America: Looking at the Politics of Punishment and Incarceration in Honduras; Lirio Guti├⌐rrez Rivera (National University of Colombia-Bogota).Chapter 3. The ''Cemetery of the Living'': An Exploration of Disposal, (In)visibility, and Change-of-Attitude in Nicaraguan Prison; Julienne Weegels (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands).Chapter 4. Facing the First Command of Capital (PCC): Regarding Ethnography of Brazil''s ''Biggest Prison Gang''; Karina Biondi (State University of Campinas, Brazil).Chapter 5. Carceral Coloniality in Venezuela: Theorizing Beyond the Latin American Penal State; Cory Fischer-Hoffman (State University of New York-Albany, United States).Chapter 6. The Bullet in the Glass. War, Death and the Meanings of Penitentiary Experience in Colombia; Libardo Jos├⌐ Ariza and Manuel Iturralde  (University of the Andes, Colombia).Section One: The Prison Underworld.Chapter 7. When Punishment is not Discipline. The Self-rule of Carceral Order in Venezuela; Andr├⌐s Antillano (Central University of Venezuela-Caracas).Chapter 8. The Mata Escura Penal Compound: An analysis of the prison-neighborhood nexus in Northeast Brazil; Hollis Moore (University of Toronto, Canada).Chapter 9. Fire Next Time: Gangs, State, and the Apocalyptic Image in Honduras; Jon Horne Carter (Appalachian State University, United States).Chapter 10. ''My prisoners or yours?'' Conflicts of authority and legitimacy among criminal justice, civil society, and criminal actors in in Brazil; Fiona MaCauley (Bradford University, United Kingdom).Chapter 11. Prison Order, Violence, and Representation in Venezuela; Chelina Sep├║lveda and Iv├ín Pojomovsky (Central University of Venezuela-Caracas).Section Two: The Informal Prison.Chapter 12. Everyday Survival and Construction of Brazilian Carcerality; Sacha Darke (University of Westminster, United Kingdom) and Oriana Hadler (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil).Chapter 13. Love Triages the State: Female Visitors and Survival in Guatemala''s Prisons; Anthony W Fontes (University of Madison-Wisconsin, United States).Chapter 14. ''He Beat Me'': How Intimate Partner Violence Contributes to the Incarceration of Women in Peru; Stephanie Campos (National Research and Development Institute-New York, United States).Chapter 15. ''Eat To Forget''. The Dangers of Food in San Pedro Prison (La Paz, Bolivia); Francesca Cerbini (State University of Cear├í-Fortaleza, Brazil).Chapter 16. Prison Authority as the Exposure, or the Concealment, of Sexual Violence; Kristen Drybread (University of Colorado-Boulder, United States).Chapter 17. Ecuador''s Prisons of Addiction: Treatment Centers amid Repressive Legal Frames; Ana J├ícome (Latin American Faculty of the Social Sciences, FLACSO-Ecuador).Conclusion

This book offers a unique examination of how violence is situationally induced and reproduced for those inmates living with HIV in a US State prison system.

The profile of prisoners across many Western countries is strikingly similar - 95% male, predominantly undereducated and underemployed, from the most deprived neighbourhoods.

This book offers a unique look into prisons in Iran and the lives of the prisoners and their families. It provides an overview of the history of Iranian prisons, depicts the sub-culture in contemporary Iranian prisons, and highlights the forms that gender discrimination takes behind the prison walls.

This book constitutes the first publication to utilise a range of social science methodologies to illuminate diverse and new aspects of health research in prison settings.

This book expands the field of prison research by drawing on six months of unique, ethnographic research in Santa Monica prison, the largest women's prison in Lima, Peru.

This book analyses the experiences of prisoners in England & Wales sentenced when relatively young to very long life sentences (with minimum terms of fifteen years or more).

This book presents the formerly-unpublished manuscript by Wheeler and Cline detailing the landmark, comparative prisons study they conducted in the 1960s which examined fifteen Scandinavian prisons and nearly 2000 inmates across four Nordic countries.

Chapter 1. Spiritual Life and the Rationalization of Violence: The State Within the State and Evangelical Order in a Venezuelan Prison; Luis Duno-Gottberg (Rice University, United States).Chapter 2. Criminalizing Youth in Latin America: Looking at the Politics of Punishment and Incarceration in Honduras; Lirio Guti├⌐rrez Rivera (National University of Colombia-Bogota).Chapter 3. The ''Cemetery of the Living'': An Exploration of Disposal, (In)visibility, and Change-of-Attitude in Nicaraguan Prison; Julienne Weegels (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands).Chapter 4. Facing the First Command of Capital (PCC): Regarding Ethnography of Brazil''s ''Biggest Prison Gang''; Karina Biondi (State University of Campinas, Brazil).Chapter 5. Carceral Coloniality in Venezuela: Theorizing Beyond the Latin American Penal State; Cory Fischer-Hoffman (State University of New York-Albany, United States).Chapter 6. The Bullet in the Glass. War, Death and the Meanings of Penitentiary Experience in Colombia; Libardo Jos├⌐ Ariza and Manuel Iturralde  (University of the Andes, Colombia).Section One: The Prison Underworld.Chapter 7. When Punishment is not Discipline. The Self-rule of Carceral Order in Venezuela; Andr├⌐s Antillano (Central University of Venezuela-Caracas).Chapter 8. The Mata Escura Penal Compound: An analysis of the prison-neighborhood nexus in Northeast Brazil; Hollis Moore (University of Toronto, Canada).Chapter 9. Fire Next Time: Gangs, State, and the Apocalyptic Image in Honduras; Jon Horne Carter (Appalachian State University, United States).Chapter 10. ''My prisoners or yours?'' Conflicts of authority and legitimacy among criminal justice, civil society, and criminal actors in in Brazil; Fiona MaCauley (Bradford University, United Kingdom).Chapter 11. Prison Order, Violence, and Representation in Venezuela; Chelina Sep├║lveda and Iv├ín Pojomovsky (Central University of Venezuela-Caracas).Section Two: The Informal Prison.Chapter 12. Everyday Survival and Construction of Brazilian Carcerality; Sacha Darke (University of Westminster, United Kingdom) and Oriana Hadler (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil).Chapter 13. Love Triages the State: Female Visitors and Survival in Guatemala''s Prisons; Anthony W Fontes (University of Madison-Wisconsin, United States).Chapter 14. ''He Beat Me'': How Intimate Partner Violence Contributes to the Incarceration of Women in Peru; Stephanie Campos (National Research and Development Institute-New York, United States).Chapter 15. ''Eat To Forget''. The Dangers of Food in San Pedro Prison (La Paz, Bolivia); Francesca Cerbini (State University of Cear├í-Fortaleza, Brazil).Chapter 16. Prison Authority as the Exposure, or the Concealment, of Sexual Violence; Kristen Drybread (University of Colorado-Boulder, United States).Chapter 17. Ecuador''s Prisons of Addiction: Treatment Centers amid Repressive Legal Frames; Ana J├ícome (Latin American Faculty of the Social Sciences, FLACSO-Ecuador).Conclusion

This two-volume, edited collection lays the groundwork for an international exploration of incarceration and generation, covering a range of geographic, judicial and administrative contexts of incarceration from contributors across a range of subjects. Volume II examines intergenerational relations issues within contexts of incarceration.

This two-volume, edited collection lays the groundwork for an international exploration of incarceration and generation, cover a range of geographic, judicial and administrative contexts of incarceration from contributors across a range of subjects.

This book is organized around several core themes including: conditions of confinement, relationships in confinement, gender/sexuality and identity, perspectives on juvenile facility staff, reentry from youth prisons, young people's experiences in adult prisons, and new models and perspectives on juvenile imprisonment.

This book examines the forms and practices of Irish confinement from the 19th century to present-day to explore the social and political failings of 20th and 21st century postcolonial Ireland.

The collected chapters highlight the array of processes and practices that shape carceral life, adding the cell to a rich area of discussion in penal scholarship, criminology, anthropology, sociology and carceral geography.