This article reviews the evidence regarding young women's involvement in violent crime
and, drawing on recent research carried out in HMPYOI Cornton Vale in Scotland, provides …

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 …

'Noaks and Wincup's book is useful primarily to criminology students for its clarity, use of
illustrative case studies, exercises and end-of-chapter suggested further reading'-The …

We analyse how men incarcerated in Helsinki Prison managed, through talk, their
stigmatized identities as prisoners. Three strategies are identified:'appropriation'of the label …

In her recent article on autoethnography and emotion in prison research, Jewkes suggests
that “most prison studies remain surprisingly ungendered texts,” and that—on the whole …

This book is concerned with the media's role in everyday life, power relations and the
construction of masculine identities in the context of prisons. It is based upon unique …

Drawing on surveys of 4,860 prisoners' perceptions of the quality of prison life in 49
establishments in England and Wales, this paper examines the extent to which prisoners …

Drawing on research in men's long-term, maximum-security prisons, this book examines
three interconnected problems: the tendency of the prison to obscure other social problems …

Prison ethnographers have tended to downplay the epistemological and methodological
dilemmas relating to identity and positionality, which have been more commonly rehearsed …

The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Ethnography provides an expansive overview of the
challenges presented by qualitative, and particularly ethnographic, enquiry. The chapters …