Ed Schreeche-Powell
Biographic Data
| ID | 4076240 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ed Schreeche-Powell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ed |
| FAMILY NAME | Schreeche-Powell |
| SIGNATURE | SCHREECHE-POWELL E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Greenwich |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5551-9649 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Double liminality
This analysis reconceptualises open prisons as institutions of suspension rather than bridges to freedom. Extending penal liminality theory, it advances the concept of double liminality to explain how ‘transitional imprisonment’—custody whose boundary remains permeable in both directions—governs through compounded ambiguity. Drawing on qualitative research in English open prisons, the study theorises how prisoners are suspended between two thresh…
Institutional withdrawal
This article argues that institutional withdrawal—the retraction of institutional infrastructure—is a distinctive mode of late-modern penal power. Drawing on fieldwork into peer-led induction in open prisons in England and Wales, it shows how withdrawal operates across interpersonal, procedural and organizational dimensions as institutional actors step back while retaining surveillance and sanctioning powers. Whether intentional or unintentional,…
Navigating Mental Health in the Male Open Prison
Navigating Mental Health in the Male Open Prison re-examines how mental health is managed within the male open prison, focusing on the under-explored role of peer support during transfer, transition, and adaptation. Schreeche-Powell addresses a neglected gap in penal research by investigating how ‘well-meaning interventions’ can produce unintended, iatrogenic harms. Through the lens of power and pain, the book critically explores how peer-led sup…
Hollowing out peer support
This article examines peer-led induction in open prisons to explore how managerialism, responsibilisation and staff culture distort the circulation and conversion of knowledge in penal institutions. Drawing on Nonaka and Takeuchi’s SECI model, it shows that the stages of socialisation, externalisation, combination and internalisation were systematically fractured. Officers possessed tacit insights into the anxieties of transfer, while peers held …
Peer support and iatrogenic outcomes
Peer support schemes, such as peer-led induction (PLI), aim to ease the challenges of imprisonment by harnessing prisoners lived experience to support other prisoners. These schemes are designed to help prisoners navigate disorienting transitions, especially in open prisons where increased autonomy coexists with institutional control. Despite the assumption that PLI promotes well-being, legitimacy, and adaptation, emerging critiques suggest it co…
Insecurity and Fragility
Risk management in the criminal justice system reflects a wider societal risk consciousness. People with criminal records are seen as risks requiring governance. Despite the recent interest in embedding lived experience in academic practice, for Convict Criminologists, the collateral and informal pains of imprisonment follow them into university and underpin their precarity, leading to an ingrained ‘Status Fragility’ (Tietjen and Kavish 2021). Th…
Interventionitis in the Criminal Justice System
This article highlights the problem it names as ‘interventionitis’; the tendency of policymakers to treat enduring, systemically generated problems with limited interventions that are insufficient or inappropriate for the intended improvement. We outline three typical features of interventionitis; overconfidence in these quick fixes, the iatrogenic effect of unintended harms caused by such interventions, and the focus on surface-level rather than…
Ben Crewe, Andrew Goldsmith and Mark Halsey, Power, and Pain in the Modern Prison
Peer Support and Well-Being
Since 1988, the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons (JPP) has been a prisoner written, academically oriented and peer reviewed, non-profit journal, based on the tradition of the penal press. It brings the knowledge produced by prison writers together with academic arguments to enlighten public discourse about the current state of carceral institutions. This is particularly important because with few exceptions, definitions of deviance and constructio…
Peer support and iatrogenic outcomes
Peer support schemes, such as peer-led induction (PLI), aim to ease the challenges of imprisonment by harnessing prisoners lived experience to support other prisoners. These schemes are designed to help prisoners navigate disorienting transitions, especially in open prisons where increased autonomy coexists with institutional control. Despite the assumption that PLI promotes well-being, legitimacy, and adaptation, emerging critiques suggest it co…
Insecurity and Fragility
Risk management in the criminal justice system reflects a wider societal risk consciousness. People with criminal records are seen as risks requiring governance. Despite the recent interest in embedding lived experience in academic practice, for Convict Criminologists, the collateral and informal pains of imprisonment follow them into university and underpin their precarity, leading to an ingrained ‘Status Fragility’ (Tietjen and Kavish 2021). Th…
Peer Support and Well-Being
Since 1988, the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons (JPP) has been a prisoner written, academically oriented and peer reviewed, non-profit journal, based on the tradition of the penal press. It brings the knowledge produced by prison writers together with academic arguments to enlighten public discourse about the current state of carceral institutions. This is particularly important because with few exceptions, definitions of deviance and constructio…
Ben Crewe, Andrew Goldsmith and Mark Halsey, Power, and Pain in the Modern Prison
Navigating Mental Health in the Male Open Prison
Navigating Mental Health in the Male Open Prison re-examines how mental health is managed within the male open prison, focusing on the under-explored role of peer support during transfer, transition, and adaptation. Schreeche-Powell addresses a neglected gap in penal research by investigating how ‘well-meaning interventions’ can produce unintended, iatrogenic harms. Through the lens of power and pain, the book critically explores how peer-led sup…
Hollowing out peer support
This article examines peer-led induction in open prisons to explore how managerialism, responsibilisation and staff culture distort the circulation and conversion of knowledge in penal institutions. Drawing on Nonaka and Takeuchi’s SECI model, it shows that the stages of socialisation, externalisation, combination and internalisation were systematically fractured. Officers possessed tacit insights into the anxieties of transfer, while peers held …
Peer support and iatrogenic outcomes
Peer support schemes, such as peer-led induction (PLI), aim to ease the challenges of imprisonment by harnessing prisoners lived experience to support other prisoners. These schemes are designed to help prisoners navigate disorienting transitions, especially in open prisons where increased autonomy coexists with institutional control. Despite the assumption that PLI promotes well-being, legitimacy, and adaptation, emerging critiques suggest it co…
Insecurity and Fragility
Risk management in the criminal justice system reflects a wider societal risk consciousness. People with criminal records are seen as risks requiring governance. Despite the recent interest in embedding lived experience in academic practice, for Convict Criminologists, the collateral and informal pains of imprisonment follow them into university and underpin their precarity, leading to an ingrained ‘Status Fragility’ (Tietjen and Kavish 2021). Th…
Interventionitis in the Criminal Justice System
This article highlights the problem it names as ‘interventionitis’; the tendency of policymakers to treat enduring, systemically generated problems with limited interventions that are insufficient or inappropriate for the intended improvement. We outline three typical features of interventionitis; overconfidence in these quick fixes, the iatrogenic effect of unintended harms caused by such interventions, and the focus on surface-level rather than…
Double liminality
This analysis reconceptualises open prisons as institutions of suspension rather than bridges to freedom. Extending penal liminality theory, it advances the concept of double liminality to explain how ‘transitional imprisonment’—custody whose boundary remains permeable in both directions—governs through compounded ambiguity. Drawing on qualitative research in English open prisons, the study theorises how prisoners are suspended between two thresh…
Institutional withdrawal
This article argues that institutional withdrawal—the retraction of institutional infrastructure—is a distinctive mode of late-modern penal power. Drawing on fieldwork into peer-led induction in open prisons in England and Wales, it shows how withdrawal operates across interpersonal, procedural and organizational dimensions as institutional actors step back while retaining surveillance and sanctioning powers. Whether intentional or unintentional,…
Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (7 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Corporate governance (3 works) · Peer support (3 works) · Prison (3 works) · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Imprisonment (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (2 works)