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This handbook presents a rich collection of chapters that focus on the method and experience of in-depth, ethnographic research in prisons. It provides an authoritative and diverse array of international perspectives that collectively demonstrate the social and political dimensions of the use and experience of imprisonment worldwide. With a foreword by Professor Yvonne Jewkes, University of Leicester, UK. The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Ethnography provides an expansive overview of the challenges presented by qualitative, and particularly ethnographic, enquiry. The chapters reflect upon the means by which ethnographers aim to gain understanding, make sense of what they learn and the way they represent their finished work. The Handbook offers urgent insights relevant to current trends in the growth of imprisonment worldwide. In an era of mass incarceration, human-centric ethnography provides an important counter to quantitative analysis and the audit culture on which prisons are frequently judged. The Handbook is divided into four parts. Part I ('About Prison Ethnography') assesses methodological, theoretical and pragmatic issues related to the use of ethnographic and qualitative en

Who reads The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Ethnography (Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology)?

Author

Jennifer Sloan, Deborah H. Drake, Rod Earle

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan UK

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781137403872

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Anthropology, Sociology