RT Article
T1 Introducing the New School of Convict Criminology
JF Social justice
VO 28
IS 1
SP 177
OP 190
A1 Richards, Stephen C.
A2 Ross, Jeffrey Ian
LA English
YR 2001
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747159301
AB Part of a special issue on welfare and punishment in the era of President George W. Bush. The new school of convict criminology consists primarily of essays and empirical research by enlightened academics or by convicts or ex-convicts who possess or will complete a doctorate, and it addresses issues routinely disregarded by prison “managerial research.” Four interrelated movements, factors, and methodologies brought about the birth of this discipline—theoretical developments in criminology, the failure of prisons, the authenticity of insider views, and the centrality of ethnography.
K1 Ex-convicts
K1 Criminal Behavior
K1 Prisons
K1 Criminology