Through the Barricades
Prisoner Protest and Penal Policy in Scotland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11449183 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Phil Scraton (0009-0006-9992-8520, corresponding author), Joe Sim, PAULA SKIDMORE (0000-0002-6628-4523) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 247 |
| Publication date | 1988-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Law and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-323X • E-ISSN: 1467-6478 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1409879 |
| OpenAlex | W2313959336 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
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 differential impact of long-term imprisonment on women;5 and the dynamics of life inside from the autobiographical perspective of the incarcerated.6 Academics involved in such work have been concerned to provide a voice for the confined and to shift the terrain on which the debate about long-term imprisonment has taken place. That terrain has been dominated by official discourse, with the imprisoned rarely given a chance to articulate their views or express their feelings about existing inside what two prison researchers have called the electronic coffins of long-term maximum security institutions.7 This academic work, which has been termed from below, has been a major and influential strand in the development of British criminology in the last twenty years.8 Within the prison system it has been particularly relevant in a number of areas: providing a platform which has allowed prisoners to describe the pains of confinement;9 challenging official explanations in the highly contentious area of deaths in custody;10 and developing alternative explanations and accounts of the major disturbances which have occurred in the prisons of the United Kingdom over the last two decades.1 Between 1969 and 1983 there were ten such prison disturbances in England
Criminology · Political science · Sociology · Child Abuse and Trauma · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
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| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |