Insider and Out: Making Sense of a Prison Experience and a Research Experience. (April 2014)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Insider and Out: Making Sense of a Prison Experience and a Research Experience. (April 2014)
- Main Title:
- Insider and Out
- Authors:
- Earle, Rod
- Other Names:
- Jewkes Yvonne guest-editor.
- Abstract:
- Prison ethnographers in the United Kingdom have offered rich and diverse accounts of penal interiors, and prisoners' views and experiences have been, for the most part, reported with sensitivity, creativity, and insight. In the midst of this relatively flourishing qualitative research activity, the actual voices prisoners, and of ex-prisoners who are now prison researchers, have been relatively subdued, although there are signs that this may be about to change. In this article, I explore some of the potentials, possibilities, and problems afforded by insider research—that is, research that draws on direct experience of penal confinement—and explore whether, and how, "spending time" is different from "serving time." As opportunities to "do prison research differently" emerge, I critically examine some of the epistemological claims and potentials of insider research, its relations to ethnography, and the relevance of advocacy groups, such as Convict Criminology.
- Is Part Of:
- Qualitative inquiry. Volume 20:Number 4(2014)
- Journal:
- Qualitative inquiry
- Issue:
- Volume 20:Number 4(2014)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 20, Issue 4 (2014)
- Year:
- 2014
- Volume:
- 20
- Issue:
- 4
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2014-0020-0004-0000
- Page Start:
- 429
- Page End:
- 438
- Publication Date:
- 2014-04
- Subjects:
- prison -- insiders -- reflexivity -- identity -- biography
Social sciences -- Methodology -- Periodicals
Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals
300.72 - Journal URLs:
- http://journals.sagepub.com/home/qix# ↗
http://qix.sagepub.com/ ↗
http://www.sagepublications.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1177/1077800413515832 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1077-8004
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- Legaldeposit
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