Despite its original vision of a community of ex-convict criminological and criminal justice
experts, Convict Criminology (CC) has had difficulty with international expansion and has …

This paper presents a qualitative study exploring the concept of esprit de corps in prison
officers (POs), through the interpretative lens of Social Identity Theory. The study relies on …

Today, Italian prisons are reporting the highest level of overcrowding ever recorded. In
reference to this situation, this article proposes an ethnographic study carried out inside the …

The academic field of Convict Criminology (CC) started in the mid-1990s. In general, CC
argues that the insights and experiences of currently and formerly incarcerated men and …

En opposition à un débat médiatique qui considère le travail pénitentiaire comme une
panacée contre la récidive, l'auteur tente de reconstruire le point de vue des prisonniers sur …

This contribution aims to explore the tension between the juridical dimension of the prison
system and the everyday practices that take place within it. The article focus on prison …

Negli ultimi anni ripetuti tagli della spesa prevista per il lavoro penitenziario hanno causato il
continuo abbassamento delle ore lavorative retribuite. Oggi il numero dei detenuti che …

On ne peut donc aborder la question de l'univers carcéral sans s' intéresser à la figure du
gardien. Double inversé du détenu, il a toujours été considéré comme constituant le revers …

This chapter reconstructs the first steps towards the development and adoption of a Convict
Criminology (CC) approach inside the Italian social sciences. More specifically, it explores …

This chapter argues that Convict Criminology has played a major role in posing the
necessity to rely on the “first-hand experience” of prisoners for the production of scientific …