Understanding the Attraction

Research undertaken in three decommissioned English prisons offers fresh insight into public attraction. Employing interviews with prison tourists, it reveals dark incentives rooted in historical and cultural representations of punishment, an inherent desire to look beyond the prison walls, and a fascination towards a concept I define as Abstract Death and Suffering

Attraction · Criminology · Economics · Gaze · Incentive · Political science · Prison · Psychoanalysis · Punishment (psychology) · Sociology · Tourism · Tourist attraction · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Social Psychology

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• Social interaction and dark tourism in prison museums

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• The Prison Boundary

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• The Hanging Tree

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• Shots in the Mirror

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• The Darker Side of Travel

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• The image of the Devil in C. G. Jung's psychology

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• Discipline and Punish

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• Affective Tourism

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• The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison

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• The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Tourism

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• Punishing the Poor

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• Superstition will Add to its Horrors’

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• The Iconography of Punishment

  Open Access•Eamonn Carrabine•The Howard Journal of Criminal…•2011

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• The Culture of Punishment

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• Projecting the prison

  Open Access•Michael Fiddler•Crime Media Culture An…•2007

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• Lies, distortion and what doesn’t work

  Open Access•Paul Mason•Crime Media Culture An…•2006

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• Images of torture

  Open Access•Eamonn Carrabine•Crime Media Culture An…•2011

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• Staged authenticity in penal history sites across Canada

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• What’s so ‘Dark’ about ‘Dark Tourism’

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• (Un)seeing like a prison

  Open Access•Judah Schept•Theoretical Criminology•2014

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• Dark tourism and significant other death

  Open Access•Philip R Stone•Annals of Tourism Research•2012

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• The death drive in tourism studies

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• The Society of Captives

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• Japanese Atmospheres of Criminal Justice

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• Purity and Danger

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• Unlocking carceral atmospheres

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• Using thematic analysis in psychology

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• The birth of the museum

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• The Critical Foundations of Visual Criminology

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• Guided by the dark

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• Just Images

  Open Access•Eamonn Carrabine•The British Journal of Criminology•2012

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• Concepts of culture in the sociology of punishment

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• Dark tourism, thanatourism, and dissonance in heritage tourism management

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• Researching Society and Culture

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• Performing heritage

  Open Access•Yujie Zhu•Annals of Tourism Research•2012

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• Punishment and Culture

  Open Access•Michael Campbell, Michael C Campbell•Contemporary Sociology A Journal…•2009

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• Gazing at Ground Zero

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• Thematic networks

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• Staged Authenticity

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