Y Jewkes
Biographic Data
| ID | 16819 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Y Jewkes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Y |
| FAMILY NAME | Jewkes |
| SIGNATURE | JEWKES Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4088-0159 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 187 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Living between inside and outside: The disciplined domesticities of prison staff quarters in the UK's Victorian-era prisons
Carceral geography has critiqued the notion of a clear binary between the inside and outside of prisons, revealing that the prison boundary is porous, and that the prison materialises in multiple forms outside of its apparent margins. However, extant scholarship focusing on (formerly-)incarcerated individuals and others whose engagement with the prison is involuntary, has tended to elude prison staff experiences of these porous and permeable bord…
Defining the Carceral Characteristics of the ‘Dickensian prison’: A Corpus Stylistics Analysis of Dickens’s Novels
Charles Dickens is often evoked to make connections to Victorian times – and to highlight the need for change in today’s society. The situation of prisons is a prime example, where references to the ‘Dickensian prison’ figure in contemporary discourse to draw critical attention to the state of prisons and to call for reform. But it would be too simple to assume that today’s references to the Dickensian prison relate directly to the way Dickens na…
The Persistence of the Victorian Prison: Alteration, Inhabitation, Obsolescence, and Affirmative Design
Prior scholarship tracing the origins and architecture of prisons has tended to focus on how and why prisons are built—what they are intended to achieve and their construction as an expression of the punitive philosophies of their age. It does not consider how prisons persist as time passes, perhaps beyond their anticipated operational life span, and into “obsolescence.” Focusing on the archetypal Victorian prison, and considering the alteration …
Liminality revisited: Mapping the emotional adaptations of women in carceral space
This article draws on interview data with women in two prisons in the UK to understand the emotionally nuanced and sensorially attuned relationship between confined individuals and carceral space. The article presents an ‘emotional map’ comprising: (i) living or ‘being’ spaces; (ii) free places; and (iii) ‘therapeutic spaces’ in prisons.This tri-spatial thematic analysis enables us to use Victor Turner’s concepts of ‘liminality’ and ‘communitas’ …
Designing ‘Healthy’ Prisons for Women: Incorporating Trauma-Informed Care and Practice (Ticp) into Prison Planning and Design
This means that not only healthcare services and psychology programmes must be sensitive to individuals' trauma histories but that the architecture and design of prisons should also be sympathetic, facilitating and encouraging trauma-informed and trauma-sensitive practices within. This article problematises the Trauma-Informed Care and Practice (TICP) initiatives recently rolled out across the female prison estate, arguing that attempts to introd…
Just add water: Prisons, therapeutic landscapes and healthy blue space
‘Healthy prisons’ is a well-established concept in criminology and prison studies. As a guiding principle to prisoners’ quality of life, it goes back to the 18th century when prison reformer John Howard regarded the improvement of ventilation and hygiene as being essential in the quest for religious penitence and moral reform. In more recent, times, the notion of the ‘healthy prison’ has been more commonly associated with that which is ‘just’ and…
Media and Crime in the U.S
Prison design and the need for reform
(B)Locked sites: Cases of Internet use in three British prisons
Based on a qualitative scoping exercise in three British prisons, this article discusses digital inequalities experienced by prisoners and the potential opportunities that digital media in prisons offers for offender rehabilitation and resettlement. As they are currently denied access to online and social media that most of us take for granted, physically cut off from their communities, and unable to communicate with family and friends in ways th…
A brave new world: The problems and opportunities presented by new media technologies in prisons
This article discusses the digital inequalities experienced by prisoners and the potential opportunities that providing ‘new’ media in prisons offer for offender rehabilitation and resettlement. Currently denied access to online and social media that most of us take for granted, and unable to communicate in ways that have become ‘ordinary’ in the wider community, it is argued that prisoners experience profound social isolation and constitute one …
Becoming big things: Building events and the architectural geographies of incarceration in England and Wales
This paper advances geographies of architecture beyond frequently studied ‘signature’ buildings by drawing attention to non‐iconic, non‐utopian, banal counterpoints – in this case, new prisons. It argues that by attending to ‘signature’ buildings, architectural geographies have overlooked the critical and underexplored circumstances and contingencies of more quotidian constructions, neglecting the mundane processes of procurement, commissioning, …
Media and Crime
The paradox of the ‘green’ prison: Sustaining the environment or sustaining the penal complex
This article examines the ways in which sustainability discourses intersect with carceral policies. Building new prisons to ‘green’ industry standards; making existing prison buildings less environmentally harmful; incorporating processes such as renewable energy initiatives; offering ‘green-collar’ work and training to prisoners; and providing ‘green care’ in an effort to reduce recidivism are all provided as evidence of ‘green’ strategies that …
"Green" prisons: Rethinking the "sustainability" of the carceral estate
This exploratory paper introduces the notion of the "green" prison, uncovering the ways in which environmental sustainability inflects carceral policies and practices. Focusing on the United States, it highlights the construction of an "organizational sustainable development" discourse within the correctional system, and argues that it is the system, rather than the environment, which is being "sustained", through the promulgation of a "green" pr…
More Important than Guns or Grog: The Role of Television for the Health and Wellbeing of Australian Aboriginal Prisoners
This article examines the provision of television in the South Australian prison system and its importance to the identity, health, wellbeing and ontological security of Aboriginal prisoners. Existing research has explored the use of broadcast and print media by prisoners in the United Kingdom, United States and Europe and has established that television has an impact on incarcerated audiences far beyond its role as an ‘electronic babysitter’ or …
David Scott and Helen Codd, Controversial Issues in Prisons
Reconstructing the sexual abuse of children: ‘Cyber-Paeds’, Panic and Power
In recent years there have been several culturo-criminal discursive shifts, which have oriented political and public concerns away from ‘real world’ sex crimes against children and the people most likely to commit them. These include the construction of the dangerous stranger as the primary threat to children; the widespread use of the terms ‘paedophile’ and ‘child pornography’ in the common lexicon and the placing of both the paedophile and porn…
The haunting spectacle of crystal meth: A media-created mythology
For over a decade the media have been reporting in alarmist tones that ‘crystal meth is coming’ to the UK. Using clichéd discourse (‘crazed’, ‘epidemic’, ‘horror’, etc.) and visual images of deformed and disfigured faces, the meanings attached to the drug are clear: crystal meth creates dangerous ‘others’. Yet an identifiable crystal meth problem has hitherto failed to materialise, and press reporting of the issue appears to constitute an exempla…
Prisons
The Oxford Handbook of Crime and Criminal Justice
Architectures of incarceration: The spatial pains of imprisonment
This article considers the contribution that physical environment makes to the pains of imprisonment. Synthesizing concepts and theories from critical organization studies with those that have informed criminological studies of prison design and the lived experience of imprisonment, the article discusses the ways in which the architecture and aesthetics of penal environments might be better understood with reference to the restricted economies of…
Going Home for Christmas: Prisoners, A Taste of Freedom and the Press
This article explores the extent to which prisoners in the UK and Republic of Ireland are permitted to leave prison to join their families for the Christmas festivities. It is argued that the willingness to allow such absences provides insights into divergent penal policies and contrasting socio‐cultural attitudes towards prisoners and imprisonment (and, tangentially, the meaning of Christmas). In the Republic of Ireland the use of temporary rele…
Crime and Media
Cavemen in an Era of Speed‐of‐Light Technology’: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Communication within Prisons
Many prisoners believe that the restricted access they have to computer‐mediated communication (CMC) technologies and, in particular, the almost total absence of computers and Internet access in prisons is a form of censure that renders them second‐class citizens in the Information Age. This article examines contemporary rationales and historical precedents for denying prisoners the means to communicate (both with each other and with those outsid…
Investigating the crisis of the present
As we begin Crime, Media, Culture’s fourth volume, the need for serious and sustained scholarly engagement with the intersections of crime, media and culture has never been greater. Around the world, genocidal criminality competes with global warming and a Spice Girls reunion for media attention. The United States gears up for a presidential election sure to be decided by distorted images of terrorism, gender, and crime. The Guardian declares tha…
Architectures of incarceration: The spatial pains of imprisonment
This article considers the contribution that physical environment makes to the pains of imprisonment. Synthesizing concepts and theories from critical organization studies with those that have informed criminological studies of prison design and the lived experience of imprisonment, the article discusses the ways in which the architecture and aesthetics of penal environments might be better understood with reference to the restricted economies of…
Men Behind Bars: Doing” Masculinity as an Adaptation to Imprisonment
This article, which is part of a wider ethnographic study of constructions of self in the mediated world of men's prisons, explores 'manliness' as the prison coping strategy par excellence. That masculinity is likely to become more extreme in men's prisons is unsurprising, but the origins and nature of the 'hypermasculine' culture and the precise means by which hierarchies of domination are created and maintained have yet to be thoroughly explore…
The paradox of the ‘green’ prison: Sustaining the environment or sustaining the penal complex
This article examines the ways in which sustainability discourses intersect with carceral policies. Building new prisons to ‘green’ industry standards; making existing prison buildings less environmentally harmful; incorporating processes such as renewable energy initiatives; offering ‘green-collar’ work and training to prisoners; and providing ‘green care’ in an effort to reduce recidivism are all provided as evidence of ‘green’ strategies that …
Becoming big things: Building events and the architectural geographies of incarceration in England and Wales
This paper advances geographies of architecture beyond frequently studied ‘signature’ buildings by drawing attention to non‐iconic, non‐utopian, banal counterpoints – in this case, new prisons. It argues that by attending to ‘signature’ buildings, architectural geographies have overlooked the critical and underexplored circumstances and contingencies of more quotidian constructions, neglecting the mundane processes of procurement, commissioning, …
The haunting spectacle of crystal meth: A media-created mythology
For over a decade the media have been reporting in alarmist tones that ‘crystal meth is coming’ to the UK. Using clichéd discourse (‘crazed’, ‘epidemic’, ‘horror’, etc.) and visual images of deformed and disfigured faces, the meanings attached to the drug are clear: crystal meth creates dangerous ‘others’. Yet an identifiable crystal meth problem has hitherto failed to materialise, and press reporting of the issue appears to constitute an exempla…
Just add water: Prisons, therapeutic landscapes and healthy blue space
‘Healthy prisons’ is a well-established concept in criminology and prison studies. As a guiding principle to prisoners’ quality of life, it goes back to the 18th century when prison reformer John Howard regarded the improvement of ventilation and hygiene as being essential in the quest for religious penitence and moral reform. In more recent, times, the notion of the ‘healthy prison’ has been more commonly associated with that which is ‘just’ and…
Liminality revisited: Mapping the emotional adaptations of women in carceral space
This article draws on interview data with women in two prisons in the UK to understand the emotionally nuanced and sensorially attuned relationship between confined individuals and carceral space. The article presents an ‘emotional map’ comprising: (i) living or ‘being’ spaces; (ii) free places; and (iii) ‘therapeutic spaces’ in prisons.This tri-spatial thematic analysis enables us to use Victor Turner’s concepts of ‘liminality’ and ‘communitas’ …
The Use of Media in Constructing Identities in the Masculine Environment of Men's Prisons
This article explores the importance of media forms and content within a unique context: the prison. Although — in common with other studies of media use among prisoners — it is inspired by the uses and gratifications tradition, this study refines and develops the approach, synthesizing it with Giddens's theory of structuration and Bourdieu's notion of habitus in order to understand not only patterns of media consumption in prisons, but also to g…
A brave new world: The problems and opportunities presented by new media technologies in prisons
This article discusses the digital inequalities experienced by prisoners and the potential opportunities that providing ‘new’ media in prisons offer for offender rehabilitation and resettlement. Currently denied access to online and social media that most of us take for granted, and unable to communicate in ways that have become ‘ordinary’ in the wider community, it is argued that prisoners experience profound social isolation and constitute one …
The Persistence of the Victorian Prison: Alteration, Inhabitation, Obsolescence, and Affirmative Design
Prior scholarship tracing the origins and architecture of prisons has tended to focus on how and why prisons are built—what they are intended to achieve and their construction as an expression of the punitive philosophies of their age. It does not consider how prisons persist as time passes, perhaps beyond their anticipated operational life span, and into “obsolescence.” Focusing on the archetypal Victorian prison, and considering the alteration …
Investigating the crisis of the present
As we begin Crime, Media, Culture’s fourth volume, the need for serious and sustained scholarly engagement with the intersections of crime, media and culture has never been greater. Around the world, genocidal criminality competes with global warming and a Spice Girls reunion for media attention. The United States gears up for a presidential election sure to be decided by distorted images of terrorism, gender, and crime. The Guardian declares tha…
Policing the filth: The problems of investigating online child pornography in England and Wales
This article explores the difficulties facing the police in England and Wales in their attempts to combat the trade in abusive images of children on the Internet. It discusses the problems that hamper investigations into computer-mediated child pornography in the context of the history and composition of the police service, its decentralised and ‘local’ character, its lack of adequate government funding, its internal culture which many regard as …
It’s the image that matters: Style, substance and critical scholarship
position -Visual Arts Editor -which will be filled by Cécile Van de Voorde.Reflecting our scholarly interest in the visual, we believe this new role will further cement CMC's distinctive and innovative approach to visual issues.In this context it is the visual, and its significance for explorations of crime, media and culture, that we wish to address briefly in this editorial.Inserts Images ALF2006 and LIAR2006 around here Today, the visual const…
Hip hop graffiti, Mexican murals and the war on terror
Editorial: Hip Hop Graffiti, Mexican Murals and the War on TerrorCrime, Media, Culture: an International Journal was borne out of two thoughts that came to us in the summer of 2002.The first was the realization that the time was right.In an age defined by media saturation and ubiquitous interpretive spin, a constant and inescapable flow and exchange of signs, symbols and codes, the increasingly blurred boundaries between the represented and the r…
The Use of Media in Constructing Identities in the Masculine Environment of Men's Prisons
This article explores the importance of media forms and content within a unique context: the prison. Although — in common with other studies of media use among prisoners — it is inspired by the uses and gratifications tradition, this study refines and develops the approach, synthesizing it with Giddens's theory of structuration and Bourdieu's notion of habitus in order to understand not only patterns of media consumption in prisons, but also to g…
Hip hop graffiti, Mexican murals and the war on terror
Editorial: Hip Hop Graffiti, Mexican Murals and the War on TerrorCrime, Media, Culture: an International Journal was borne out of two thoughts that came to us in the summer of 2002.The first was the realization that the time was right.In an age defined by media saturation and ubiquitous interpretive spin, a constant and inescapable flow and exchange of signs, symbols and codes, the increasingly blurred boundaries between the represented and the r…
Policing the filth: The problems of investigating online child pornography in England and Wales
This article explores the difficulties facing the police in England and Wales in their attempts to combat the trade in abusive images of children on the Internet. It discusses the problems that hamper investigations into computer-mediated child pornography in the context of the history and composition of the police service, its decentralised and ‘local’ character, its lack of adequate government funding, its internal culture which many regard as …
Men Behind Bars: Doing” Masculinity as an Adaptation to Imprisonment
This article, which is part of a wider ethnographic study of constructions of self in the mediated world of men's prisons, explores 'manliness' as the prison coping strategy par excellence. That masculinity is likely to become more extreme in men's prisons is unsurprising, but the origins and nature of the 'hypermasculine' culture and the precise means by which hierarchies of domination are created and maintained have yet to be thoroughly explore…
Borders breached, conventional claims questioned
Welcome to Volume 2 of Crime Media Culture: An International Journal.At a time when many of our geographical and cultural borders are ever more closely guarded, it seems apt to reflect on the intellectual and artistic borders breached and intersected across the pages of CMC.As the scholarship appearing in CMC suggests, these borders -most notably, but not exclusively, between criminology, media studies, and cultural studies -are often porous, and…
It’s the image that matters: Style, substance and critical scholarship
position -Visual Arts Editor -which will be filled by Cécile Van de Voorde.Reflecting our scholarly interest in the visual, we believe this new role will further cement CMC's distinctive and innovative approach to visual issues.In this context it is the visual, and its significance for explorations of crime, media and culture, that we wish to address briefly in this editorial.Inserts Images ALF2006 and LIAR2006 around here Today, the visual const…
Investigating the crisis of the present
As we begin Crime, Media, Culture’s fourth volume, the need for serious and sustained scholarly engagement with the intersections of crime, media and culture has never been greater. Around the world, genocidal criminality competes with global warming and a Spice Girls reunion for media attention. The United States gears up for a presidential election sure to be decided by distorted images of terrorism, gender, and crime. The Guardian declares tha…
Crime and Media
Cavemen in an Era of Speed‐of‐Light Technology’: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Communication within Prisons
Many prisoners believe that the restricted access they have to computer‐mediated communication (CMC) technologies and, in particular, the almost total absence of computers and Internet access in prisons is a form of censure that renders them second‐class citizens in the Information Age. This article examines contemporary rationales and historical precedents for denying prisoners the means to communicate (both with each other and with those outsid…
Going Home for Christmas: Prisoners, A Taste of Freedom and the Press
This article explores the extent to which prisoners in the UK and Republic of Ireland are permitted to leave prison to join their families for the Christmas festivities. It is argued that the willingness to allow such absences provides insights into divergent penal policies and contrasting socio‐cultural attitudes towards prisoners and imprisonment (and, tangentially, the meaning of Christmas). In the Republic of Ireland the use of temporary rele…
Prisons
The Oxford Handbook of Crime and Criminal Justice
Architectures of incarceration: The spatial pains of imprisonment
This article considers the contribution that physical environment makes to the pains of imprisonment. Synthesizing concepts and theories from critical organization studies with those that have informed criminological studies of prison design and the lived experience of imprisonment, the article discusses the ways in which the architecture and aesthetics of penal environments might be better understood with reference to the restricted economies of…
Reconstructing the sexual abuse of children: ‘Cyber-Paeds’, Panic and Power
In recent years there have been several culturo-criminal discursive shifts, which have oriented political and public concerns away from ‘real world’ sex crimes against children and the people most likely to commit them. These include the construction of the dangerous stranger as the primary threat to children; the widespread use of the terms ‘paedophile’ and ‘child pornography’ in the common lexicon and the placing of both the paedophile and porn…
The haunting spectacle of crystal meth: A media-created mythology
For over a decade the media have been reporting in alarmist tones that ‘crystal meth is coming’ to the UK. Using clichéd discourse (‘crazed’, ‘epidemic’, ‘horror’, etc.) and visual images of deformed and disfigured faces, the meanings attached to the drug are clear: crystal meth creates dangerous ‘others’. Yet an identifiable crystal meth problem has hitherto failed to materialise, and press reporting of the issue appears to constitute an exempla…
More Important than Guns or Grog: The Role of Television for the Health and Wellbeing of Australian Aboriginal Prisoners
This article examines the provision of television in the South Australian prison system and its importance to the identity, health, wellbeing and ontological security of Aboriginal prisoners. Existing research has explored the use of broadcast and print media by prisoners in the United Kingdom, United States and Europe and has established that television has an impact on incarcerated audiences far beyond its role as an ‘electronic babysitter’ or …
David Scott and Helen Codd, Controversial Issues in Prisons
"Green" prisons: Rethinking the "sustainability" of the carceral estate
This exploratory paper introduces the notion of the "green" prison, uncovering the ways in which environmental sustainability inflects carceral policies and practices. Focusing on the United States, it highlights the construction of an "organizational sustainable development" discourse within the correctional system, and argues that it is the system, rather than the environment, which is being "sustained", through the promulgation of a "green" pr…
Media and Crime
The paradox of the ‘green’ prison: Sustaining the environment or sustaining the penal complex
This article examines the ways in which sustainability discourses intersect with carceral policies. Building new prisons to ‘green’ industry standards; making existing prison buildings less environmentally harmful; incorporating processes such as renewable energy initiatives; offering ‘green-collar’ work and training to prisoners; and providing ‘green care’ in an effort to reduce recidivism are all provided as evidence of ‘green’ strategies that …
(B)Locked sites: Cases of Internet use in three British prisons
Based on a qualitative scoping exercise in three British prisons, this article discusses digital inequalities experienced by prisoners and the potential opportunities that digital media in prisons offers for offender rehabilitation and resettlement. As they are currently denied access to online and social media that most of us take for granted, physically cut off from their communities, and unable to communicate with family and friends in ways th…
A brave new world: The problems and opportunities presented by new media technologies in prisons
This article discusses the digital inequalities experienced by prisoners and the potential opportunities that providing ‘new’ media in prisons offer for offender rehabilitation and resettlement. Currently denied access to online and social media that most of us take for granted, and unable to communicate in ways that have become ‘ordinary’ in the wider community, it is argued that prisoners experience profound social isolation and constitute one …
Becoming big things: Building events and the architectural geographies of incarceration in England and Wales
This paper advances geographies of architecture beyond frequently studied ‘signature’ buildings by drawing attention to non‐iconic, non‐utopian, banal counterpoints – in this case, new prisons. It argues that by attending to ‘signature’ buildings, architectural geographies have overlooked the critical and underexplored circumstances and contingencies of more quotidian constructions, neglecting the mundane processes of procurement, commissioning, …
Prison design and the need for reform
Media and Crime in the U.S
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