Palgrave Handbook of Prison Ethnography

Helen Arnold, University Campus Suffolk, UK Lilian Ayete-Nyampong, Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice, Ghana Mahuya Bandyopadhyay, Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai, India Jamie Bennett is Governor of HMP Grendon/Springhill and holds a PhD in Criminology. Kristel Beyens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Miranda Boone, University of Groningen, Netherlands, and Utrecht University, Netherlands Lucy Carr, University of Sheffield, UK Gilles Chantraine, CNRS CLERSÉ, France Ben Crewe, University of Cambridge, UK William Davies, Leeds Beckett University, UK Deborah H. Drake, The Open University, UK Rod Earle, The Open University, UK Elisabeth Fransson, Correctional Service of Norway Staff Academy Joel Harvey, Kings College London, UK Alice Ievins, University of Cambridge, UK Andrew M. Jefferson, DIGNITY: Danish Institute Against Torture Yvonne Jewkes, University of Leicester, UK Berit Johnsen, Correctional Service of Norway Staff Academy AlisonLiebling, University of Cambridge, UK Tomas Max Martin, Danish Institute for Human Rights Benita Moolmana, Human and Social Development Unit in Cape Town, South Africa Martyn Hammersley The Open University, UK Coretta Phillips, London School of Economics, UK Laura Piacentini, University of Strathclyde, UK Lorna A. Rhodes, University of Washington, USA Abigail Rowe, The Open University, UK Nicolas Sallée, Université de Montréal, Canada David Scott, Liverpool John Moores University, UK Jennifer Sloan, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Christina Straub, Leeds University, UK Thomas Ugelvik, University of Oslo, Norway James B. Waldram, University of Saskatchewan, Canada Lindsay Whetter, University of Exeter, UK Serena Wright, University of Cambridge, UK

• Foreword: What Has Prison Ethnography to Offer in an Age of Mass Incarceration?; Yvonne Jewkes General Introduction: What Ethnography Tells Us about Prisons and What Prisons Tell Us about Ethnography; Deborah H. Drake, Rod Earle and Jennifer Sloan PART I: ABOUT ETHNOGRAPHY 1. Research 'Inside' Viewed from 'Outside': Reflections on Prison Ethnography; Martyn Hammersley 2. Walking Among the Graves of the Living: Reflections about Doing Prison Research from an Abolitionist Perspective; David Scott 3. Prisons Research Beyond the Conventional: Dialogue, 'Creating Miracles' and Staying Sane in a Maximum Security Prison; Alison Liebling, Helen Arnold and Christina Straub 4. "Get in, Get out, Go back?": Transitioning from Prison Ethnography to Prison Policy Research in Russia; Laura Piacentini 5. Ethnography of Writings in Prison: Professional Power Struggles Surrounding a Digital Notebook in a Prison for Minors; Gilles Chantraine and Nicolas Sallée 6. Closeness, Distance and Honesty in PrisonEthnography; Ben Crewe and Alice Ievins 7. Going in Green: Reflections on the Challenges of 'Getting in, Getting on, and Getting out' for Doctoral Prisons Researchers; Jennifer Sloan and Serena Wright PART II: THROUGH ETHNOGRAPHY 8. Performing Ethnography: Infiltrating Prison Spaces; Andrew M. Jefferson 9. The Perfume of Sweat: Prison Research through Deleuzian Lenses; Elisabeth Fransson and Berit Johnsen 10. Ethnography: Exploring Methodological Nuances in Feminist Research with Men Incarcerated for Sexual Offences; Benita Moolman 11. Writing Bad: Prison Ethnography and the Problem of 'Tone'; James B. Waldram 12. Prison Ethnography at the Threshold of Race, Reflexivity and Difference; Rod Earle and Coretta Phillips 13. Finding Secrets and Secret Findings: Confronting the Limits of the Ethnographer's Gaze; Deborah H. Drake 14. Ethnographic Imagination in the Field of the Prison; Lorna A. Rhodes PART III: OF ETHNOGRAPHY 15. Insider Ethnography or The Tale of the Prison Governor's New Clothes; Jamie Bennett 16. Changing Hats: Transiting between Practitioner and Researcher Roles; Lilian Ayete-Nyampong 17. 'To Thine Own Self Be True': Having Faith in the Prison Researcher; Lindsay Whetter 18. Situating the Self in Prison Research: Power, Identity and Epistemology; Abigail Rowe 19. Re-Entry to Prison: Transition from HMP Researcher to 'Independent' Researcher; Lucy Carr 20. The Ethnographic Practitioner; Joel Harvey PART IV: FOR ETHNOGRAPHY 21. Global Prison Ethnography; Thomas Ugelvik 22. Accessing and Witnessing Prison Practice in Uganda; Tomas Max Martin 23. Deviation and Limitations of (Prison) Ethnography: Reflections on Fieldwork in an Indian Prison; Mahuya Bandyopadhyay 24. Unique Position: Dual identities as Prison Researcher and Ex-prisoner; William Davies 25. Mixing Detention Cultures: The Belgian - Dutch Case; Kristel Beyens and Miranda Boone

"Undertaking ethnographic observation in prisons troubles its practitioners. Ethnography as a research practice always presents profound challenges; in prisons the ambivalences and embarrassments, the divided loyalties, the fascinations and the tedium, can be demanding and chastening indeed. To their great credit the editors of this beautifully conceived and executed volume neither shy away from these problems nor merely indulge in them. Instead they and their contributors take a measured and reflective look at the problems that prison ethnography raises, including those it cannot resolve. Cumulatively, these essays tell us why it matters that the ethnographic study of places of confinement never be eclipsed and why in the end it will not be. In the future everyone who contemplates doing such work will want to reckon with this book and will have reason to be grateful for its lessons" - Richard Sparks, Professor of Criminology and Head of School of Law, University of Edinburgh, UK "This Handbook offers a rich, honest, challenging and fascinating overview of prison ethnographies in over 10 countries. It discusses important theoretical issues and methodological dilemmas inherent in conducting qualitative, and more particularly ethnographic, inquiry in prisons, while providing at the same time an authoritative account of prison conditions around the world. By looking not only at how ethnography enhances understanding of the prison, but also how prison ethnographies contribute to our understanding of the ethnographic enterprise, it will be an invaluable source for students, practitioners and researchers both within and beyond criminological and prison studies." Sonja Snacken, Professor of Criminology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium