Understanding the Attraction
Prison Tourism and the Public Gaze
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8401574 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Diane Urquhart (0009-0001-0991-3944, Independent Scholar , Goscote Lodge, Birstall, Leicester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1359-1379 |
| Publication date | 2022-10-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjc/azab096 |
| OpenAlex | W3204411896 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 65 |
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
The Prison Boundary
The Hanging Tree
Shots in the Mirror
The Darker Side of Travel
The polysemy of punishment memorialization
The image of the Devil in C. G. Jung's psychology
Discipline and Punish
Affective Tourism
The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison
The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Tourism
Punishing the Poor
Superstition will Add to its Horrors’
The Iconography of Punishment
The Culture of Punishment
Projecting the prison
Lies, distortion and what doesn’t work
Images of torture
Staged authenticity in penal history sites across Canada
What’s so ‘Dark’ about ‘Dark Tourism’
(Un)seeing like a prison
Dark tourism and significant other death
The death drive in tourism studies
The Society of Captives
Japanese Atmospheres of Criminal Justice
Purity and Danger
Unlocking carceral atmospheres
Using thematic analysis in psychology
The birth of the museum
The Critical Foundations of Visual Criminology
Guided by the dark
Just Images
Concepts of culture in the sociology of punishment
Dark tourism, thanatourism, and dissonance in heritage tourism management
Researching Society and Culture
Performing heritage
Punishment and Culture
Gazing at Ground Zero
Thematic networks
Staged Authenticity
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |