Punishment and Society: The International Journal of Penology

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‘Entrapped in a penal time capsule’: Extralegal discourses in sentence review of life prisoners in India

Tripathi, Karan; Dagan, Netanel

2024 Punishment and Society: The International Journal of Penology

Scholars argue that lifers’ parole can be mobilised to be punitive and politicised. However, how parole decision-makers construct and disguise their punitive and politicised discourses when deciding the paroled subject is understudied, especially with regard to the global south. In this paper,...

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Book review: The Idea of Prison Abolition by Tommie Shelby

Nellis, Mike

2024 Punishment and Society: The International Journal of Penology

doi:10.1177/14624745231220875

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The monster and the self: Taking on the monstrosity of sexual violations

Kruse, Anja Emilie; Skilbrei, May-Len

2024 Punishment and Society: The International Journal of Penology

doi:10.1177/14624745231221933

The contemporary normative climate regarding sexual violence affects how perpetrators of such violence relate to their harmful acts. In this article, we analyze how men convicted of sex offences are affected by how perpetrators of such offences are often represented as monsters and ask what this...

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Punishment is purple: The political economy of prison building

Eason, John M; Campbell, Mary E; Ghasemi, Benjamin; Huey, Eileen

2024 Punishment and Society: The International Journal of Penology

doi:10.1177/14624745231218521

The United States is unique among rich countries in the world in its level of contemporary mass incarceration, a massive social change that has reshaped the nature of inequality and social mobility. We have more than tripled the number of prison facilities since 1970. Despite employing nearly...

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A reality check on the digitalisation of prisons: Assessing the opportunities and risks of providing digital technologies for prisoners

Hofinger, Veronika; Pflegerl, Philipp

2024 Punishment and Society: The International Journal of Penology

doi:10.1177/14624745241237190

While our societies are developing into digital information societies, most prisoners do not have access to modern information and communications technologies. Smart prisons that provide digital devices for prisoners aim to grant prisoners more autonomy, provide access to education and...

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Border control within Spanish prisons? Intersections between immigration control and imprisonment at the southern border of Europe

Güerri, Cristina

2024 Punishment and Society: The International Journal of Penology

doi:10.1177/14624745231224163

Recent scholarship has highlighted that, for many foreign nationals, Western European prisons function as 'places of crimmigration' where non-citizens are over-represented, often excluded from rehabilitation efforts, sometimes held in segregated prisons, and where it is common for incarceration...

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‘A pre-requisite of progress’? Prison modernisation and new prison building in England and Wales

Jones, Robert; Hart, Emily; Scott, David

2024 Punishment and Society: The International Journal of Penology

doi:10.1177/14624745241229149

Drawing upon archival research and documentary analysis, this article offers the first in-depth critical account of the prison modernisation narrative in England and Wales. By closely examining the claims behind the UK Government's current prison building policy, the article reveals that prison...

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Book Review: Caged Emotions: Adaptation, Control and Solitude in Prison, Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology by Ben Laws

Vasiliou, Elena

2024 Punishment and Society: The International Journal of Penology

doi:10.1177/14624745241229044

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Legal reality or legal mirage? Examining the relationship between police violence, legal consciousness, and the promise of civil legal justice

Rocha Beardall, Theresa

2024 Punishment and Society: The International Journal of Penology

doi:10.1177/14624745241237702

Race-and-class-subjugated communities continue to experience disproportionate police violence despite increased attention to this longstanding problem. This study examines how residents make sense of the legal issues that arise from these encounters and turn to civil law for assistance. I do so...

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From “wait ‘em out” to push them out: Teachers’ reflections on passive and active modes of racialized school exclusion

Cruz, Kenneth A.; Myers, Randy

2024 Punishment and Society: The International Journal of Penology

doi:10.1177/14624745241240719

Much has been written about the school-to-prison pipeline and the larger punitive turn within schools in the United States. This research has documented disturbing racialized disparities and disproportionate impacts on youth who are diagnosed with disabilities. While this scholarship has...

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