The Prison Boundary

Between Society and Carceral Space

Jennifer Turner

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English

Palgrave Macmillan
29 July 2016

Ethical issues: capital punishment; Prisons; Criminal or forensic psychology; Human geography

Series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology

This book explores the idea of the prison boundary, identifying where it is located, which processes and performances help construct and animate it, and who takes part in them. Although the relationship between prison and non-prison has garnered academic interest from various disciplines in the last decade, the cultural performance of the boundary has been largely ignored. This book adds to the field by exploring the complexity of the material and symbolic connections that exist between society and carceral space. Drawing on a range of cultural examples including governmental legislation, penal tourism, prisoner work programmes and art by offenders, Jennifer Turner attends to the everyday, practised manifestations and negotiations of the prison boundary. The book reveals how prisoners actively engage with life outside of prison and how members of the public may cross the boundary to the inside. In doing so, it shows the prison boundary to be a complex patchwork of processes, people and parts. The book will be of great interest to scholars and upper-level students of criminology, carceral geography and cultural studies.

By: Jennifer Turner
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 1st ed. 2016
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 4.451kg
ISBN: 9781137532411
ISBN 10: 1137532416
Series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 29 July 2016
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction.- Chapter 1. Conceptualising 'Inside' and 'Outside'.- Chapter 2. Legislating a Prison Boundary in England and Wales.- Chapter 3. Tourism on the Prison Boundary.- Chapter 4. Working Towards a Boundary Crossing.- Chapter 5. Complicating Carceral Boundaries with Offender Art.- Conclusion. A Boundary Patchwork.

Jennifer Turner is a Research Associate in the School of Applied Social Science, University of Brighton and an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham. She has been widely published in various journals including Social and Cultural Geography, Area, Space and Polity, and Punishment and Society.