Correctional rehabilitation and positive psychology: Opportunities and challenges

SJ Morse, KA Wright, M Klapow - Sociology Compass, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
At this point it is clear that the pursuit of the rehabilitative ideal is stitched into the DNA of
American corrections. However, in our collective quest to establish and defend 'what …

'Covid-19 has caused a dramatic change to prison life'. Analysing the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the pains of imprisonment in the Scottish Prison Estate

M Maycock - The British Journal of Criminology, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The purpose of this paper is to provide insights into the impact of COVID-19 in the Scottish
Prison Estate. During the 2020 lockdown in prison in response to the COVID-19 pandemic …

Translational criminology and evidence-based policy and practice

CW Telep - 2024 - academic.oup.com
Translational criminology focuses on efforts to bring findings from research into policy and
practice. Translational work thus serves as a link between the generation of research …

'I do not appear to have had previous letters'. The potential and pitfalls of using a qualitative correspondence method to facilitate insights into life in prison during the …

M Maycock - International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown represents a significant challenge for qualitative
researchers due to social distancing measures restricting face-to-face data collection. At the …

Analysing the views of people in custody about the management of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Scottish Prison Estate

M Maycock, G Dickson - International Journal of Prisoner Health, 2021 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to foreground and analyse the views of people in
custody about the management of the COVID-19 pandemic within the Scottish Prison Estate …

Therapeutic horticulture and desistance from crime

M DelSesto - The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A growing number of organisations and institutions are using sustainability and horticultural
interventions in the correctional context for their supposed healing, rehabilitative or …

The effects of peer inclusion in the design and implementation of university prison programming: A participatory action research, randomized vignette study.

G McKenzie, KA Wright - Psychiatric rehabilitation journal, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: Including people most impacted by a challenge in designing and implementing
solutions to that challenge has reemerged in social science research. In prison settings …

Imprisoned men: Masculinity variability and implications for correctional programming

SJ Morse, KA Wright - Corrections, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Prison is a place with an accumulation of men who espouse toughness and aggression,
where those who deviate are punished and forced to renegotiate their thoughts on what it …

Carnival, sexual violence and harm at Australian music festivals

P Wadds, B Fileborn, S Tomsen - The British journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Much has been written about the search for carnivalesque release in late-modern society,
but relatively less attention has been paid to the harms experienced within this practice …

How to Listen Through a Wall: Lessons From Conducting Participatory Action Research in an Urban Prison

E Rell, D O'Connell, D Chambers… - Journal of …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This project sought to understand the present-day experiences of individuals housed in
prisons by utilizing Participatory Action Research (PAR) methods that partnered a university …