For six decades, scholars have relied on Erving Goffman's (1961) theory of total institutions
to understand prison culture. Viewing prisons as total institutions offers insights into role …

Numerous articles and textbooks advise qualitative researchers on accessing “hard-to-
reach” or “hidden” populations. In this article, I compare two studies that I conducted with …

Ethnographic studies of immigration and crime were prominent in the early decades of the
twentieth century, yet contemporary scholarship has been dominated by quantitative …

Staff–prisoner relationships have long been recognised as lying 'at the heart of the whole
prison system'(Home Office, 1984: para. 16; Liebling, 2011). However, relatively few …

The current study explores the role of legal financial obligations in the lives of women in
Georgia and Minnesota. Using a feminist perspective, we investigate women's lived …

Recovering Identity examines a critical tension in criminalized women's identity work.
Through in-depth qualitative and photo-elicitation interviews, Cesraéa Rumpf shows how …

In the United States, sexuality and sexual relationships were foundational concepts for
understanding women's prisons that generally receded from carceral research as the …

Criminologists are increasingly interested in narrative mechanisms of desistance, and a
growing body of research shows that many justice-involved individuals draw on religion in …

Through participant observation of the redemption‐focused identity work of formerly
incarcerated citizens affiliated with an urban faith‐based nonprofit organization run by ex …

Scholarship in pilgrimage studies suggests that people use travel to sacred sites to mark life
transitions such as moving into adulthood, retirement, the death of a loved one, or the …