Joe Sim
Biographic Data
| ID | 6301634 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joe Sim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joe |
| FAMILY NAME | Sim |
| SIGNATURE | SIM J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Liverpool John Moores University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Death, trauma and grief
This paper critically analyses deaths in prison in England and Wales. It focuses on how the state’s ‘truth’ about the nature and extent of these deaths has been challenged and develops an alternative perspective which situates these deaths in the context of a system built on violence and systemic indifference and where state agents are protected by a culture of immunity and impunity. It also illustrates the often-abysmal treatment of the families…
Deaths and Covid‐19
This article critically considers the UK Government's insidious attempts to control the narrative around COVID‐19 deaths through using the interrelated strategies of “talk and ‘silence’ in order to socially construct a definitive ‘truth’” around the virus. The article traces how these strategies worked in practice and the shift which took place from numerous press briefings and Parliamentary debates to an ominous silence around the number of deat…
Aching desolation
This article explores the current penal crisis through a case study of Liverpool prison, and the appalling nature of the prison’s regime, as documented in January 2018 by HM Inspectorate of Prisons. The dehumanising nature of the regime was not unique as a number of other prisons inspected during 2018 were also shown to be seriously detrimental to the health and safety of prisoners. The article also explores the problematic nature of the state’s …
Punishment and Prisons
Joe Sim traces the development of penal strategy over the past three decades through a critical analysis that makes explicit the theoretical relations between penal policy and state power
The future of prison health care
In 1999, in response to the ongoing controversy surrounding prison health care, the Home Office and the NHS Executive published The Future Organization of Prison Health Care. This article, building on interviews and field notes from research conducted in the health care centres of three local prisons, analyses and critiques the document's premises, and argues that, until the formal and informal networks of penal power are addressed, then the docu…
You'll never walk alone
This paper is concerned to chart the establishment and uses of CCTV within the location of Liverpool city centre. In doing this the paper seeks to contextualize CCTV within contemporary 'partnership' approaches to regeneration which are reshaping the material and discursive form of the city. Thus CCTV schemes along with other security initiatives are understood as social ordering strategies emanating from within locally powerful networks which ar…
Dialogue and Debate
Suspect Community
The Coercive State
Through the Barricades
United Kingdom. Since that time a number of other publications have taken up and developed some of the themes identified by Cohen and Taylor in their pioneering study. This body of work has included the analysis of the containment and control of long-term prisoners in England, Wales, and Scotland;2 case studies of the Kafkaesque rules governing the lives of longtermers;3 the politics of long-term imprisonment in Northern Ireland;4 the differentia…
Repressing the Living Dead
The Prevention of Terrorism Act
In 1979 Stuart Hall argued, on the advent of the new Conservative government, that their much lauded free market economy demanded, as a necessary corollary, the development of a powerful, centralised state apparatus to maintain order.[1] After four years of Thatcherism it is possible to add flesh to the bones of Hall's original outline and in particular how the Prevention of Terrorism Act contributes towards the growth of the strong state. Before…
You'll never walk alone
This paper is concerned to chart the establishment and uses of CCTV within the location of Liverpool city centre. In doing this the paper seeks to contextualize CCTV within contemporary 'partnership' approaches to regeneration which are reshaping the material and discursive form of the city. Thus CCTV schemes along with other security initiatives are understood as social ordering strategies emanating from within locally powerful networks which ar…
The Prevention of Terrorism Act
In 1979 Stuart Hall argued, on the advent of the new Conservative government, that their much lauded free market economy demanded, as a necessary corollary, the development of a powerful, centralised state apparatus to maintain order.[1] After four years of Thatcherism it is possible to add flesh to the bones of Hall's original outline and in particular how the Prevention of Terrorism Act contributes towards the growth of the strong state. Before…
Deaths and Covid‐19
This article critically considers the UK Government's insidious attempts to control the narrative around COVID‐19 deaths through using the interrelated strategies of “talk and ‘silence’ in order to socially construct a definitive ‘truth’” around the virus. The article traces how these strategies worked in practice and the shift which took place from numerous press briefings and Parliamentary debates to an ominous silence around the number of deat…
Dialogue and Debate
Through the Barricades
United Kingdom. Since that time a number of other publications have taken up and developed some of the themes identified by Cohen and Taylor in their pioneering study. This body of work has included the analysis of the containment and control of long-term prisoners in England, Wales, and Scotland;2 case studies of the Kafkaesque rules governing the lives of longtermers;3 the politics of long-term imprisonment in Northern Ireland;4 the differentia…
The Prevention of Terrorism Act
In 1979 Stuart Hall argued, on the advent of the new Conservative government, that their much lauded free market economy demanded, as a necessary corollary, the development of a powerful, centralised state apparatus to maintain order.[1] After four years of Thatcherism it is possible to add flesh to the bones of Hall's original outline and in particular how the Prevention of Terrorism Act contributes towards the growth of the strong state. Before…
Repressing the Living Dead
Through the Barricades
United Kingdom. Since that time a number of other publications have taken up and developed some of the themes identified by Cohen and Taylor in their pioneering study. This body of work has included the analysis of the containment and control of long-term prisoners in England, Wales, and Scotland;2 case studies of the Kafkaesque rules governing the lives of longtermers;3 the politics of long-term imprisonment in Northern Ireland;4 the differentia…
The Coercive State
Suspect Community
Dialogue and Debate
You'll never walk alone
This paper is concerned to chart the establishment and uses of CCTV within the location of Liverpool city centre. In doing this the paper seeks to contextualize CCTV within contemporary 'partnership' approaches to regeneration which are reshaping the material and discursive form of the city. Thus CCTV schemes along with other security initiatives are understood as social ordering strategies emanating from within locally powerful networks which ar…
The future of prison health care
In 1999, in response to the ongoing controversy surrounding prison health care, the Home Office and the NHS Executive published The Future Organization of Prison Health Care. This article, building on interviews and field notes from research conducted in the health care centres of three local prisons, analyses and critiques the document's premises, and argues that, until the formal and informal networks of penal power are addressed, then the docu…
Punishment and Prisons
Joe Sim traces the development of penal strategy over the past three decades through a critical analysis that makes explicit the theoretical relations between penal policy and state power
Aching desolation
This article explores the current penal crisis through a case study of Liverpool prison, and the appalling nature of the prison’s regime, as documented in January 2018 by HM Inspectorate of Prisons. The dehumanising nature of the regime was not unique as a number of other prisons inspected during 2018 were also shown to be seriously detrimental to the health and safety of prisoners. The article also explores the problematic nature of the state’s …
Death, trauma and grief
This paper critically analyses deaths in prison in England and Wales. It focuses on how the state’s ‘truth’ about the nature and extent of these deaths has been challenged and develops an alternative perspective which situates these deaths in the context of a system built on violence and systemic indifference and where state agents are protected by a culture of immunity and impunity. It also illustrates the often-abysmal treatment of the families…
Deaths and Covid‐19
This article critically considers the UK Government's insidious attempts to control the narrative around COVID‐19 deaths through using the interrelated strategies of “talk and ‘silence’ in order to socially construct a definitive ‘truth’” around the virus. The article traces how these strategies worked in practice and the shift which took place from numerous press briefings and Parliamentary debates to an ominous silence around the number of deat…
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Criminology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (6 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Prison (4 works) · Psychology (4 works)