Tag: long-term imprisonment
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“…even roses grow out of sh*t, don’t they?”
Reflections on an interview with ‘P’, who described what it was like to try and do good when you’re also labelled as bad.
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New publication: Only one way to swim?
I’ve got a new article in the British Journal of Criminology. The published version is behind a paywall, but those without access can download the accepted manuscript here, or a pre-print (i.e. the version I originally submitted to the journal, before peer review) here or here. It is pitched at an academic readership, and it’s…
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Not just a piece of cake
On why hospitality in prison can mean rather more than it does elsewhere, and why a piece of cake isn’t just a piece of cake.
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Notes: an agenda for research on long-term prisoners
After a quiet period on the blog while I’ve been working on other things, this will be the first in a series of posts which are essentially notes on the reading I’ve been doing. Other posts will specifically be written for the blog, but these notes posts are a way of trying to force myself…