This article analyses the role, form, and function of halfway houses (often referred to as re‐
entry centres) in contemporary Canadian punishment. Building on studies of Nordic 'penal …

Esta tese de doutoramento apresenta um estudo sobre subjetividades de profissionais das
prisões na sua relação com os meios de segurança e coerção penal, considerando a …

This article sets the groundwork for understanding prison violence as a broad and
interrelated phenomenon which is bound by shifting notions of legitimacy. We argue that the …

While the Nicaraguan prison system officially functions as a progressive privilege system
with a humanistic re-educational penal ideology advanced through its Penitentiary Law …

Crossing the analysis of court rulings on domestic violence produced in Portuguese courts
and semi-structured interviews of men convicted of this same crime, this article emphasizes …

Ethnotheatre is an art-based methodology and a critical and world-making practice through
reflexive affect endeavour. It joins a group of people to participate in a theatre production …

Each year in Canada, roughly 6,500 individuals are released from federal prisons. Ex-
prisoners face a range of challenges as they rejoin the community, including finding …

This thesis explores the impacts of hope on the experience of incarceration and re-entry into
the community and how ex-prisoners make sense of and foster hope in their lives. This …

This dissertation draws on ethnographic research conducted with prison abolitionists and
criminal justice reform activists in Western Massachusetts-a context in which the sheriffs who …

Esta dissertação parte de uma etnografia da prisão da Carregueira para descrever e
analisar o projeto prisional português contemporâneo. O seu argumento é o de que este …