Centered on the ethnography of prisons and field research on penal confinement, this
review maps out current developments and characterizes them in relation to key themes that …

Social scientists are angry and frustrated. Still. They believe their work is being constrained
and distorted by regulators of ethical practice who neither understand social science …

In contrast to many other social sciences, criminology has largely resisted the notion that
qualitative inquiry has autoethnographic dimensions and remained quiet on the subject of …

Despite a number of references to research fatigue and over-researching in the literature,
the concepts have yet to be empirically investigated within qualitative contexts. This article …

Prisons have been described as the final frontier for research on gangs and gang members.
Criminological research in prisons is rare due to restricted access to facilities, concerns …

This book explores how prisoners turn themselves into active opponents of the prison
regime, and thus reclaim their freedom and manhood. Using extensive ethnographic …

In this paper we unpack how geographers have studied institutions, focusing specifically on
institutional ethnography, often called 'IE'. Sociologist Dorothy Smith is widely credited with …

The prison is a recent invention, hardly more than two centuries old, yet it has become the
universal system of punishment. How can we understand the place that the correctional …

Invention récente puisqu'elle n'a guère plus de deux siècles, la prison est devenue, partout
dans le monde, la peine de référence. L'atteste, en France, le doublement de la population …

To outsiders, prisons vacillate between visions of regimented order and anarchic disorder.
The place of rules in prison sits at the fulcrum between these two visions of regulation …