Post date: Aug 13, 2019 11:14:50 AM
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, detention and coercive confinement”, the journal is open to articles relating to all forms of coercive confinement, including imprisonment, immigration detention, police custody, kidnapping, virtual confinement, and other forms of institutional and non-institutional confinement. Set up and edited by Ben Crewe, Yvonne Jewkes and Thomas Ugelvik, the journal also has an ample international advisory board spanning research on confinement across the world. It aims to provide a unique and high-quality forum for peer-reviewed articles that focus on the experience, dynamics, modes, techniques, cultures, determinants and effects of all forms of incarceration.
The new journal will be inter-disciplinary in scope, reflecting the long-standing body of work on incarceration not only from within sociologically-informed criminology, but from, e.g., social anthropology, literary studies, cultural penology, human and carceral geography, socio-legal studies, philosophy, organization studies, medical sociology, and immigration studies. Incarceration will also be international in its reach and focus, publishing scholarship from the Global South, Asia and Central and Eastern Europe, as well as the more conventional territories of the US, UK and Western Europe. The journal will publish articles exclusively in English but we will encourage scholars who have not traditionally reached international audiences with their research, by selectively publishing English language translations of the very best articles that have previously only been published in another language. One of our basic aims – put simply – is to produce a journal that is intellectually vibrant and engaging to read: full of new ideas, compelling findings and combining robust data with interesting concepts and theories. Incarceration will be a continuous publication journal.
You can find more about the journal here on its website. We much encourage you to submit your work and hope you might further spread the word to your colleagues!