Table of Contents

Introduction, Carla Reeves, Part 1. Cultures of imprisonment: stigma, identity and interaction Introduction, Carla Reeves 1. Extrapolating the realities of stigma: Correctional officers 'seeing' prisoners versus prisoners 'seeing' correctional officers, Rose Ricciardelli and Kimberley A. Clow 2. "Relax lads, youy're in safe hands here": Experiences of a sexual offender treatment prison, Nicholas Blagden and Christian Perrin 3. Staff trauma in youth justice: experiences and responses from England and Australia, Kate Gooch and Patricia McNamara 4. (In-)justice in prison - A biographical perspectives, Holger Schmidt 5. Masculinity, Imprisonment and Working Identities, Jennifer Sloan 6. Mapping Prison Foodways, Amy Smoyer Part 2. Coping with the pains of imprisonment Introduction, Carla Reeves 7. Prisoners' coping strategies in Portugal, Leonel Gonçalves, Rui Gonçalves , Carla Martins, Teresa Braga, Célia Ferreira, Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard and Anja Dirkzwager 8. A European Perspective on Inmates’ Perceptions of Safety, Kirstin Drenkhahn and Christine Morgenstern 9. The Perception of Imprisonment and its Effect on Inmate Violence, Daniel Wolter and Verena Boxberg 10. Ageing Prisoners, Natalie Mann 11. Prison for women offenders in Serbia: current situation and perspectives, Sanja Copic, Ljilana Stovkevic and Bejan Saciri 12. Physical and Mental Health Issues of Israeli Women Inmates, Tomer Einat and Gila Chen Part 3. The boundaries between the inside and outside worlds Introduction, Carla Reeves 13. A difficult disclosure: the dilemmas faced by families affected by parental imprisonment regarding what information to share with others, Kelly Lockwood and Ben Raikes 14. Work and training in prison as a form of imagined desistance, Robin Fitzgerald and Adrian Cherney 15. Wrongly convicted, wrongly incarcerated: exoneree experiences and public perceptions, Kimberley A. Clow and Rose Ricciardelli 16. Everyday life in UK Probation Approved Premises for sex offenders, Carla Reeves 17. Approved Premises - more than nine to five?, Francis Cowe 18. Staff experiences of parole supervision in Finland, Mia Kilpeläinen Conclusions, Carla Reeves.

About the Author

Carla Reeves is Subject Leader in Criminology at the University of Huddersfield, UK. Prior to joining the University in 2007 Dr Reeves was a Research Officer at Bangor University, during which time she also worked in a Probation Approved Premises (semi-secure hostel accommodation for high risk offenders being released from prison). Her research interests centre around sex offender management and networks (both formal and informal, virtual and real world) with a particular focus on offenders’ subjective personal and social experiences of such interactions within, and because of, criminal justice institutions. Alongside this is an allied interest in reintegration and resettlement and offenders’ active engagement with these processes.

Reviews

‘As punitiveness and the growth of imprisonment become increasingly accepted around the world, Carla Reeves's book is particularly salient in refocusing on the lived experience of imprisonment revealing the profound human consequences. By drawing upon a range of international ethnographic and qualitative research, this book offers a sense of what it feels like to be in prison, the nature of the everyday social dynamics, and illuminates its entanglement with wider issues of globalisation, power and inequality. These are subjects that are essential for academics, students and practitioners’.

Jamie Bennett, Governor, HMP Grendon & Springhill, UK'Only a few years ago, senior scholars were bemoaning the death of prison ethnography and the absence of insight into daily life within custodial institutions. This volume not only proves that high quality research on the nature of confinement is thriving. By detailing the experiences of groups including sex offenders, the wrongly convicted and female prisoners, and by covering contexts including approved premises, young offender institutions and prisons from a range of jurisdictions, it also demonstrates that the scope of prison research has broadened considerably. This collection brings together a very impressive range of scholars and studies and represents an exceptionally strong and timely adornment to the literature on prisons and imprisonment’.Ben Crewe, Deputy Director of the Prisons Research Centre and Director of the M.St. Penology Programme at University of Cambridge, UK.'After decades of largely ignoring mass incarceration, academic penology is undergoing something of a renaissance in recent years. This genuinely international collection of studies conducted by some of the most exciting new researchers in this new movement strikes at the heart of the matter by asking the crucial questions: "What is incarceration and what does it do?" It should be required reading'.Shadd Maruna, Dean, Rutgers School of Criminal Justice