Glimpses across 50 years of prison life from members of British Convict Criminology

Earle, Rod and Davies, Bill (2020). Glimpses across 50 years of prison life from members of British Convict Criminology. Prison Service Journal(250) pp. 13–19.

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Abstract

When the editor of the Prison Service Journal approached us with his proposal to include the views of ex-prisoners in this Special Issue on the last 50 years, we were keen to oblige. Our first ambition was to secure five short first hand accounts, one from each decade, that is the 70s, the 80s the 90s and so on. Quite quickly it became apparent that this would not be possible. Anyone serving a sentence in the 1970s, most probably in their mid20s, would now be in their late 70s and we just couldn’t track anyone down.

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• Item Type
• Journal Item
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• 0300-3558
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• Crown Copyright article made available under the Open Government Licence
• Keywords
• prison; prisoners; convict criminology; autoethnography; time
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• Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Health, Wellbeing and Social Care > Health and Social Care
  Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Health, Wellbeing and Social Care
  Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS)
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  Harm and Evidence Research Collaborative (HERC)
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• Rod Earle