The Prisoner Society: Power, Adaptation and Social Life in an English Prison

By Ben Crewe. 2009

586 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

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In General Health Professions

1. C. Behan
2. A. Stevens
3. F. McNeill
4. C. Haney
5. D. Kirk
6. Sara Wakefield
7. J. Woodall
8. R. Dixey

In Sociology and Political Science

1. C. Behan
2. A. Stevens
3. Sara Wakefield
4. F. McNeill
5. C. Haney
6. D. Kirk
7. J. Woodall
8. R. Dixey

Citations in the corpus

• ‘I am the person now I was always meant to be’: Identity reconstruction and narrative reframing in therapeutic community prisons (2012, background): “Conversely, one has no such expectations of the disparate group of people assigned to a prison wing; or rather, merely the anticipation that the resulting ‘society of captives’ (Sykes, 1958) will, with varying degrees of enthusiasm, adapt and adhere to the ‘criminalistic ideology’ (Clemmer, 1958: 30”
• Four forms of ‘offender’ rehabilitation: Towards an interdisciplinary perspective (2012, background): “It is in the complex and fraught interfaces between these forms of judgement (psychological and legal) that we find the sources, for example, of burgeoning resentment amongst English prisoners towards what apparently seems to them to be the capricious and illegitimate exercise of ‘soft power’ by pri”
• Collateral Consequences of Punishment: A Critical Review and Path Forward (2018, background): “…the presence of gangs and gang conflict (Skarbeck 2014), the level of disorder and violence (Listwan et al. 2011), prisoner culture and social relationships (Crewe 2009, Schaefer et al. 2017), and the proclivity to use solitary confinement as a control mechanism (NRC 2014, Reiter 2016).”
• The significance of ‘the visit’ in an English category-B prison: views from prisoners, prisoners’ families and prison staff (2012, background): “In almost all economically developed countries, the prison occupies a prominent place in the politics of crime control and symbolises the apex of the criminal justice system (Crewe, 2009; Sparks, 2007).”
• Suppression, denial, sublimation: Defending against the initial pains of very long life sentences (2017, background): “…imprisonment While the prison environment ‘presents extraordinary adaptive problems’ (Irwin, 1970/1987: 67), a wealth of studies within the field of prison sociology testify to the capacity of prisoners to adjust to a world that is typically unfamiliar, intimidating and painful (Crewe, 2009: 149).”
• The Psychological Effects of Solitary Confinement: A Systematic Critique (2018, background): “They contain few if any numerical data, including in the seminal American works by Cressey (1940), Sykes (1958), Toch (1975, 1977), Jacobs (1977), and Irwin (1980) and major comparable British works including Cohen andTaylor (1972) and Crewe (2009).”
• Learning to Escape: Prison Education, Rehabilitation and the Potential for Transformation (2014, background): “Crewe (2012) in his research in Wellingborough prison found that within the education department, “many prisoners found sanctuary from the stresses of life on the wings and from the normal terms on which staff-prisoner relations were founded.””