Understanding the Attraction: Prison Tourism and the Public Gaze

Research undertaken in three decommissioned English prisons offers fresh insight into public attraction. Employing interviews with prison tourists, it reveals dark incentives rooted in historical and cultural representations of punishment, an inherent desire to look beyond the prison walls, and a fa...

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Autor principal: Urquhart, Diane (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2022
En: The British journal of criminology
Año: 2022, Volumen: 62, Número: 6, Páginas: 1359-1379
Acceso en línea: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Palabras clave:
prison tourism
Gaze
dark tourism
Visual Criminology
spectacle of punishment
abstract death/suffering
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Sumario:Research undertaken in three decommissioned English prisons offers fresh insight into public attraction. Employing interviews with prison tourists, it reveals dark incentives rooted in historical and cultural representations of punishment, an inherent desire to look beyond the prison walls, and a fascination towards a concept I define as Abstract Death and Suffering.
ISSN:1464-3529
DOI:10.1093/bjc/azab096