Alisa Stevens
Biographic Data
| ID | 3975814 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alisa Stevens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Stevens |
| SIGNATURE | STEVENS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5422-7065 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Access denied
Despite the fundamental necessity of gaining gatekeeper approval for prisons fieldwork, researchers rarely publicly acknowledge and analyse their failures to secure access. Drawing upon the Foucauldian-inspired literatures on the production and policing of new criminological knowledge, this article presents as a case study the Sex in Prison research project, instigated by the Howard League for Penal Reform, and for which permission to interview s…
Sexual Activity in British Men’s Prisons
c ul t u r e of d e ni al. B ritis h Jou r n al of C ri mi n olo gy 5 7 (6) , p p. 1 3 7 9-1 3 9 7.
Offender Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Communities
The ‘Meanings’ of Female Staff in Male Therapeutic Community Prisons
Informed by observations of, and interviews with, male prisoners and female staff, this article proposes that women working in democratic therapeutic communities ( TCs ) are credited by prisoners with two ‘meanings’: as symbolic representatives of familial and intimate nurturers and as gender specialists. The former allows for the emergence of transference relationships, which invites analysis of prior, present, and prospective attachments. The l…
I am the person now I was always meant to be’
Drawing upon semi-ethnographic research, this article explores desistance in process among serious offenders residing in democratic therapeutic communities. It is argued that offender rehabilitation in therapeutic communities involves a process of purposive and agentic reconstruction of identity and narrative reframing, so that a ‘new’ and ‘better’ person emerges whose attitudes and behaviours cohere with long-term desistance from crime. This is …
I am the person now I was always meant to be’
Drawing upon semi-ethnographic research, this article explores desistance in process among serious offenders residing in democratic therapeutic communities. It is argued that offender rehabilitation in therapeutic communities involves a process of purposive and agentic reconstruction of identity and narrative reframing, so that a ‘new’ and ‘better’ person emerges whose attitudes and behaviours cohere with long-term desistance from crime. This is …
Access denied
Despite the fundamental necessity of gaining gatekeeper approval for prisons fieldwork, researchers rarely publicly acknowledge and analyse their failures to secure access. Drawing upon the Foucauldian-inspired literatures on the production and policing of new criminological knowledge, this article presents as a case study the Sex in Prison research project, instigated by the Howard League for Penal Reform, and for which permission to interview s…
I am the person now I was always meant to be’
Drawing upon semi-ethnographic research, this article explores desistance in process among serious offenders residing in democratic therapeutic communities. It is argued that offender rehabilitation in therapeutic communities involves a process of purposive and agentic reconstruction of identity and narrative reframing, so that a ‘new’ and ‘better’ person emerges whose attitudes and behaviours cohere with long-term desistance from crime. This is …
The ‘Meanings’ of Female Staff in Male Therapeutic Community Prisons
Informed by observations of, and interviews with, male prisoners and female staff, this article proposes that women working in democratic therapeutic communities ( TCs ) are credited by prisoners with two ‘meanings’: as symbolic representatives of familial and intimate nurturers and as gender specialists. The former allows for the emergence of transference relationships, which invites analysis of prior, present, and prospective attachments. The l…
Offender Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Communities
Sexual Activity in British Men’s Prisons
c ul t u r e of d e ni al. B ritis h Jou r n al of C ri mi n olo gy 5 7 (6) , p p. 1 3 7 9-1 3 9 7.
Access denied
Despite the fundamental necessity of gaining gatekeeper approval for prisons fieldwork, researchers rarely publicly acknowledge and analyse their failures to secure access. Drawing upon the Foucauldian-inspired literatures on the production and policing of new criminological knowledge, this article presents as a case study the Sex in Prison research project, instigated by the Howard League for Penal Reform, and for which permission to interview s…
Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Prison (3 works) · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (2 works) · Denial (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)