Out of the `Digger
The Warrior's Honour and the Guilty Observer
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2402191 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Sparks (0000-0003-4969-3525, Keele University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 556-581 |
| Publication date | 2002-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1466-1381 • E-ISSN: 1741-2714 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1466138102003004020 |
| OpenAlex | W2010667138 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 26 |
| References cited | 9 |
Inside prisons, situations of intractable conflict between certain prisoners and correctional authorities arise. The choices available to either party in escaping the sometimes desperate consequences of these battles are usually severely limited. One effect, desire for which is usually disclaimed by the authorities, can be the creation of a yet deeper level of incarceration for the most recalcitrant. Recalling fieldwork experiences in Scotland in the early 1990s, this article describes both this situation and a notable attempt to discover a route out of it. That route lay through the Barlinnie Special Unit, once one of the most internationally celebrated penal innovations of its day. However, the fieldwork immediately preceded, and was marginally and unintentionally implicated in, a decision to close the Special Unit. The article attempts, first and foremost, to recover what was once special about the Special Unit and, second, to discuss the factors and conditions surrounding its elimination. The latter include the uneasy question of the researcher's own involvement and the uses made of aspects of the research by the authorities and the media. While affirming that field research in prisons is unavoidably important, it sounds a note of caution concerning the terms under which it is undertaken
Criminology · Field (mathematics · Political science · Sociology · Unit (ring theory · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Psychology · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
On Civil Order in Happy Valley Criminal Justice and the Vindicatory Complex
Deconstructing the Power Dynamics of Prison Research
Soft resistance in prisons in England & Wales and Norway
States of denial
The Ethics of Research with Prisoners
Prison ethnography by correspondence
The power of the pen
Cultural talk and other intimate acquaintances with Russian prisons
De-constructing risk, therapeutic needs and the dangerous personality disordered subject
Making sense of penal difference
Performing the role of ethnographer
From “Observation Dude” to “An Observational Study”
Comparing deep‐end confinement in England & Wales and Norway
Where Two ‘Exceptional’ Prison Cultures Meet
Fieldwork, Biography and Emotion
Civilizing Imprisonment
Colonial Confessions
A prison within a prison”? Examining the enfolding spatialities of care and control in the Barlinnie Special Unit
Emotions and agency in prison research
Researching victimisation using auto-ethnography
How to Write Things
Ethnographic experiences of participating in a correctional officer training program
Postscript
Making Windows in Walls
Autoethnography and Emotion as Intellectual Resources
The Ethnography of Prisons and Penal Confinement
| Unique citing works | 26 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,24 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2026 (22) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 26 |