The origins and contours of inmate social organization were once central research areas
that stalled just as incarceration rates dramatically climbed. In this review, we return to …

Significant in the management of a safe and secure custodial environment is the compliance
of incarcerated persons with the prison rules and the directives of prison officers. In recent …

The 'pains of imprisonment'have been a longstanding concern within prison sociology. This
article revisits the topic, suggesting that modern penal practices have created some new …

On any given day nearly 3000 foreign national citizens are detained under immigration
powers in UK detention centres alone. Around the world immigrants are routinely detained …

While prisons are often described as places of pain, despair and hopelessness, studies
show that some prisoners under certain conditions report positive life changes happening in …

Worldwide, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on prisoners. The prison
environment and prisoner health put prison populations at a higher risk of contracting …

Where is the pain in exceptional prisons? A new generation of prisons produces unusual
'pains of imprisonment'which scholars of punishment are only beginning to catalog. This …

Research evidence demonstrates that sex offender treatment programmes (SOTPs) can
reduce the number of sex offenders who are reconvicted. However, there has been much …

This book explores how prisoners turn themselves into active opponents of the prison
regime, and thus reclaim their freedom and manhood. Using extensive ethnographic …

To outsiders, prisons vacillate between visions of regimented order and anarchic disorder.
The place of rules in prison sits at the fulcrum between these two visions of regulation …