The Global Prison Research Network is for scholars worldwide researching prisons and other institutions of confinement. The network is multi-disciplinary and open for researchers doing confinement studies on different levels – from the everyday life of specific institutions, to the wider political impact of penal policy changes.
News & Publications
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New Incarceration Journal!
It is our pleasure to share with you the wonderful news of
the establishment of an incarceration-oriented journal with Sage publishers.
Pertinently titled “Incarceration: An international journal of imprisonment ...
Posted 13 Aug 2019, 04:14 by Julie W
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Call for abstracts: critical perpectives on penality in South East Asia
Please consider whether this is of interest and please circulate where relevant.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON PENALITY IN SE ASIA
The European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EUROSEAS ...
Posted 8 Feb 2019, 02:43 by Andrew Jefferson
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New Perspectives on Prison Masculinities
Forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan is the edited collection "New Perspectives on Prison Masculinities" (2018), edited by GPRN-member Matthew Maycock and Kate Hunt. The collection utilises recent advances in theories ...
Posted 17 Nov 2017, 07:39 by Julie W
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New Members & Updates
| Name | Research Region | Research Interests |
| Patricia Canning | North of Ireland & Netherlands | Forensic Linguistics, prisoners’ wellbeing, prison reading groups, criminal justice reforms, penal reforms, inspectorate reports, the language of prison policy. | | Marlene Persch | Ghana | Anthropology of state, bureaucracy & public services, state actors/prison officers and the negotiation of state images and practices, ethnography | | Wendy Fitzgibbon | India, Germany, Pakistan, UK | | | Anna Katharina Schliehe | Scotland, UK | Carceral geography, nature and experience of closed spaces. | | Vitor S. Dieter | Brazil | Prison gangs, PCC, prison ethnography, maximum security prisons, global and cultural criminology |
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