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About: Prison is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 25120 publications have been published within this topic receiving 470474 citations. The topic is also known as: jail & gaol.


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TL;DR: In this paper, an analysis of prisoner resistance to power dynamics in the prison food experience is presented. But the focus is on the prisoner as both an agent and a subject, and not on the moral dimensions of penal practice.
Abstract: Just as food plays an important symbolic role in greater society, eating inside a prison is imbued with a great amount of power and significance. Consumption is a constantly recurring aspect of institutional life and, therefore, by examining this ubiquitous act, a researcher can access a subtle, nuanced account of how power operates within the prison apparatus. By drawing on examples from interviews with prisoners about the prison food experience, this article will work to make visible the centrality of prisoner resistance to these power dynamics. In addition, this examination of prison food will support current analyses in the criminological literature by developing an increased understanding of the prisoner as both agent and subject, while highlighting the moral dimensions of penal practice.

89 citations

26 Nov 2016
TL;DR: The children of the prison boom: Children of the Prison boom as discussed by the authors, Children of Prison boom, Children of prison boom, children of Prison Boom, children in prison, Children in prison boom
Abstract: Children of the prison boom : , Children of the prison boom : , کتابخانه دیجیتال و فن آوری اطلاعات دانشگاه امام صادق(ع)

89 citations

01 Jan 1999
TL;DR: This paper argued that the effect of incarceration on offenders is minimal and that lower risk offenders may be more adversely affected by greater lengths of incarceration through exposure to an environment typically dominated by their higher risk, more hard core peers.
Abstract: Three schools of thought dominate the area. The first is that prisons definitely suppress criminal behaviour. Given the unpleasantness of prison life and the negative social stigma associated with incarceration, these should serve as deterrents to later criminal behaviour. The second, the "schools of crime" viewpoint, proposes just the opposite, that is, that prisons increase criminality. By this account, the barren, inhumane, and psychologically destructive nature of prisonisation makes offenders more likely to recidivate upon release. The third school of thought, which we label the "minimalist/interaction" position, contends that the effect of prison on offenders is, for the most part, minimal. This view states that prisons are essentially "psychological deep freezes", in that offenders enter prison with a set of antisocial attitudes and behaviours which are little changed during incarceration. This perspective also suggests that lower risk offenders may be more adversely affected by greater lengths of incarceration through exposure to an environment typically dominated by their higher risk, more hard core peers.

88 citations

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TL;DR: A previous history of self-mutilation was found in 7.5% of women on reception to a London prison, which identified a subgroup of female prisoners with severe personality disorder and multiple disorders of impulse.
Abstract: A previous history of self-mutilation was found in 7.5% of women on reception to a London prison. Although research has highlighted the additional importance of environmental influences, self-mutilation as a single variable identified a subgroup of female prisoners with severe personality disorder and multiple disorders of impulse. Their early family environment was characterised by disruption and deprivation and by more extensive experience of physical and sexual abuse when compared to controls. In adulthood many showed abnormal psychosexual development and ‘polymorphous perversity’. Their criminal histories were characterised by an early onset of persistent, serious and wide-ranging patterns of offending. Despite multiple and severe forms of psychopathology and frequent psychiatric contact, many of these women currently receive long periods of care and containment within the penal system. They fail to cooperate with and respond poorly to conventional psychiatric treatment, and psychiatric hospitals are unwilling or unable to cope with their behaviour.

88 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20242
20231,347
20222,993
20211,071
20201,271
20191,247