书目名称 | The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Ethnography |
编辑 | Deborah H. Drake (Senior Lecturer in Criminology), |
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丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology |
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描述 | .The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Ethnography. provides an expansive overview of the challenges presented by qualitative, and particularly ethnographic, enquiry. The chapters reflect upon the means by which ethnographers aim to gain understanding, make sense of what they learn and the way they represent their finished work. The Handbook offers urgent insights relevant to current trends in the growth of imprisonment worldwide. In an era of mass incarceration, human-centric ethnography provides an important counter to quantitative analysis and the audit culture on which prisons are frequently judged. .The Handbook is divided into four parts. Part I (‘About Prison Ethnography‘) assesses methodological, theoretical and pragmatic issues related to the use of ethnographic and qualitative enquiry in prisons. Part II (‘Through Prison Ethnography‘) considers the significance of ethnographic insights in terms of wider social or political concerns. Part III (‘Of Prison Ethnography‘) analyses different aspects of the roles ethnographers take and how they negotiate their research settings. Part IV (‘For Prison Ethnography‘) includes contributions that convincingly extend the value of prison ethn |
出版日期 | Book 2015 |
关键词 | Prison; ethnography; research methods; global; reflexivity; criminology; anthropology; penology; crime and s |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137403889 |
isbn_ebook | 978-1-137-40388-9Series ISSN 2753-0604 Series E-ISSN 2753-0612 |
issn_series | 2753-0604 |
copyright | Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2015 |