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Convict Criminology research covers a wide array of topical subjects. Our collection of downloadable PDFs is below.
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Introducing Convict Criminology
The Lure of the Law for the Formerly Convicted: Pursuing the Legal Profession as a Resistance Strategy – Megan Denver & James M. Binnall
The Future of Convict Criminology – Jennifer M. Ortiz
Marking 25 Years of Convict Criminology by Building a New Table: Transformative Social Justice, Inclusion and Activism as Part of a Larger Social Movement – Grant Tietjen, Alison Cox, & J. Renee Trombley
Beyond the Ivory Tower: The Need for Collective Activism in Convict Criminology – Jennifer M. Ortiz
Every Picture Tells a Story: Framing and Understanding the Activism of Convict Criminology – Jeffrey Ian Ross & Grant Tietjen
Here She Comes: Women of Convict Criminology – Denise Woodall
Thinking Critically About the Next Decade of Convict Criminology – Jeffrey Ian Ross
Exploring Narrative, Convictions and Autoethnography as a Convict Criminologist – Rod Earle
No Justice Without Us: Respecting Lived Experience of the Criminal Justice System – Paula Harriott
Convict Criminology and Abolitionism: Looking Towards a Horizon Without Prisons – Elton Kalica
Sociology Behind Bars? Penitentiary Sociology in the Czech Republic – Lukáš Dirga
Convict Criminology from Here to There: A Content Analysis of Scholarship in a Growing Subfield – Jeffrey Ian Ross & Heith Copes
Let the Convicts Speak: A Critical Conversation of the Ongoing Language Debate in Convict Criminology – Jennifer M. Ortiz, Alison Cox, Daniel R. Kavish, & Grant E. Tietjen
Introducing the New School of Convict Criminology – Stephen C. Richards & Jeffrey Ian Ross
Convict Criminology: Learning from the Past, Confronting the Present, Expanding for the Future – Grant E. Tietjen
John Irwin and the (Convict) Criminology Code – Katherine Irwin
The First Dime: A Decade of Convict Criminology – Richard S. Jones, Jeffrey Ian Ross, Stephen C. Richards, & Daniel S. Murphy
Frank Tannenbaum: The Making of a Convict Criminologist – Matthew G. Yeager
The Myth of a Fair Criminal Justice System – Matthew Robinson & Marian Williams
Controversies Surrounding Laud Humphreys’ Tearoom Trade: An Unsettling Example of Politics and Power in Methodological Critiques – Michael Lenza
Starting with Prisoners’ Standpoints, Following with Action – Justin Piché & Kevin Walby
Developing Insider Perspectives in Research Activism – Andreas Aresti & Sacha Darke
Interpreting the development and growth of Convict Criminology in South America – Jeffrey Ian Ross & Sacha Darke
Convict Criminology: Voices from Prison – Stephen Richards, Donald Faggiani, Jed Roffers, Richard Hendricksen, & Jerrick Krueger
Prison Research From the Inside: The Role of Convict Autoethnography – Greg Newbold, Jeffrey Ian Ross, Richard S. Jones, Stephen C. Richards, & Michael Lenza
The New School of Convict Criminology Thrives and Matures – Stephen C. Richards
Convict Criminology and Social Justice Advocacy: Toward Radical Change – Robert S. Grigsby
Convict Criminology and Community Collaboration: Developing a Unique Program to Empower Vulnerable Youth in Idaho – James Burnett & DJ Williams
The Inviting Convicts to College Program – Chris Rose, Kristin Reschenberg, & Stephen Richards
Convict Criminology – Jeffrey Ian Ross, Stephen Richards, Greg Newbold, Michael Lenza, & Robert Grigsby
Practicing Convict Criminology: Lessons Learned from British Academic Activism – Andreas Aresti & Sacha Darke
Uncovering the Hidden Social World: Insider Research In Prison – Richard S. Jones
Une sociologie des « taulards » : la convict criminology [A Sociology of “Convicts”: Convict Criminology] – Grégory Salle
Public Criminology and Criminologists with Records – Christopher Uggen, Veronica Horowitz, & Robert Stewart
Reflections on Convict Criminology – Robert Johnson
Convict Criminology: Provocazioni Da Oltreoceano. La Ricerca Etnografica In Carcere – Teresa Degenhardt & Francesca Vianello
In Memory of John Irwin – Stephen C. Richards, James Austin, Barbara Owen, & Jeffrey Ian Ross
Convict Criminology – Stephen C. Richards, Greg Newbold, & Jeffrey Ian Ross
Convict Criminology: A New Way of Doing Prison Research? – Lukáš Dirga
Introducción a la convict criminology: aportes desde una perspectiva interna, crítica y autoetnográfica [Introduction to Convict Criminology: Contributions from an Inner, Critical, and Autoethnographic Perspective] – Francesca Constantini
Logical and Consistent? An Analysis of Supreme Court Opinions Regarding the Death Penalty – Matthew B. Robinson & Kathleen M. Simon
Everything You Wanted to Know about Convict Criminology but were too Afraid to Ask – Jeffrey Ian Ross
Im Gespräch: Convict Criminology [In Discussion: Convict Criminology] – Christine Graebsch & Jeffrey Ian Ross
Criminological Theory
Interactionist Labeling: Formal and Informal Labeling’s Effects on Juvenile Delinquency – Daniel R. Kavish, Christopher W. Mullins, & Danielle A. Soto
Just Mercy through Cultural and Convict Criminology – Anna King
Continuing the Interactionist Tradition: Examining the Relationship Between Juvenile Delinquency, Formal Labeling, and Adult Criminal Behavior – Daniel R. Kavish
The First Step Is a Doozy: The Accessibility of Law School Applications for Incarcerated Students – James M. Binnall, Lauren M. Davis, & Anais Lopez
Tackling Whiteness as a Decolonizing Task in Contemporary Criminology – Rod Earle
Captives in Society: The Role of Race in the Carceral Cycle – R.V. Gundur & Daniel R. Kavish
Carceral Citizens Rising: Understanding Oppression Resistance Work Through the Lens of Carceral Status – Denise Woodall & Sarah Shannon
Self-Efficacy Toward Release and Transfer in a Women’s Federal Medical Center: An Ethnographic Analysis of a Prisoner’s Blog – Michelle L. Malkin & Alison Cox
Standing at the Intersection of Identity and Convict Criminology: A Brief Exercise in Reflexivity – J. Renee Trombley
A Partial Test of Life-Course Theory on A Prison Release Cohort – Matthew G. Yeager
Toking Their Way Sober: Alcoholics and Marijuana as Folk Medicine – Michael Lenza
The Time of Our Lives: Consumption of the “Hey-buddy” Social Currency – Gregory R. Webb
Conceal Carry and Race: A Test of Minority Threat Theory in Law Generation – Christopher W. Mullins & Daniel R. Kavish
Self-Control Behind Bars: A Validation Study of the Grasmick et al. Scale – Matt Delisi, Andy Hochstetler, & Daniel S. Murphy
The Inside’s Influence on the Outside – Grant E. Tietjen
Policy Implications of Contemporary Labeling Theory Research – Daniel R. Kavish
Vehicular Homicide in France in the Equine Era: Were Distracted Driving and Road Rage Decivilizing Consequences of the Civilizing Process in the 1840s? – Hugh P. Whitt & Grant E. Tietjen
The Maximizer: Clarifying Merton’s Theories of Anomie and Strain – Daniel S. Murphy & Matthew B. Robinson
‘It just be like that’: Young Men’s and Women’s Attributions of Negative Sexual Behavior – Christopher W. Mullins & Daniel R. Kavish
Exploring the Paradox of the (Un)reality of Richard Quinney’s Criminology – Alan Mobley, Hal Pepinsky, & Chuck Terry
Suspended Identity: Identity Transformation in a Maximum Security Prison – Thomas J. Schmid & Richard S. Jones
Why Criminology is Irrelevant – James Austin
It’s Been Hard to be a Father: A Qualitative Exploration of Incarcerated Fatherhood – Joyce Arditti, Sara A. Smock, & Tiffaney S. Parkman
No Cell for the Soul: Prison, Philosophy and Bernard Stiegler – A Short Appreciation – Rod Earle
A Phenomenology of Freedom: Finding Transcendence in Captivity – Mark Alexander
“When You Got Friends in Low Places, You Stay Low:” Social Networks and Access to Resources for Female Methamphetamine Users in Low Income Suburban Communities – Denise Woodall & Miriam Boeri
Another Emerging “Storm”: Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans with PTSD in The Criminal Justice System – William B. Brown
The Impact of ‘Life’ Behind Bars: Understanding Space, Impression Management and Masculinity through Former Inmate Narratives – James Gacek
“Me Time”: (Re)Presenting Self and Carceral Spaces – James Gacek
How American-based Television Commercials Portray Convicts, Correctional Officials, Carceral Institutions, and the Prison Experience – Jeffrey Ian Ross & Vickie Sneed
‘Con-viviality’ and Beyond: Identity Dynamics in a Young Men’s Prison – Rod Earle & Coretta Phillips
‘Muslim is the New Black’ – New Ethnicities and New Essentialisms in the Prison – Rod Earle & Coretta Phillips
Insider and Out: Reflections on a Prison Experience and Research Experience – Rod Earle
Boys’ Zone Stories: Perspectives from a Young Men’s Prison – Rod Earle
Developing a Penal Abolitionist Application to Drug Treatment Drawing from Insider Perspectives and Lived Experiences – Denise Woodall & Miriam Boeri
Prison Ethnography at the Threshold of Race, Reflexivity and Difference – Rod Earle & Coretta Phillips
Ethnicity, Multiculture and Racism in a Young Offenders’ Institition – Rod Earle
“A Grandes Cautelas, Otras Mayores”: Importing Neoliberal Criminal Justice Policies and Practices into Chile – Jeffrey Ian Ross & Bárbara Barraza Uribe
Poetic Justice: Juvenile Justice Alternatives and the Road to a Poetic Criminology – Lucas Alan Dietsche
Street Life and Masculinities – Christopher W. Mullins & Daniel R. Kavish
Formerly Incarcerated Black Mothers Matter Too: Resisting Social Constructions of Motherhood – Michael B. Mitchell & Jaya B. Davis
Gender Differences in Gambling-Related Harms and Gambling-Motivated Crime – Michelle L. Malkin & Michele Stacey
Collateral Consequences and Reentry
Making Good One Semester at a Time: Formerly Incarcerated Students (and Their Professor) Consider the Redemptive Power of Inclusive Education – James M. Binnall, Irene Sotelo, Adrian Vasquez, & Joe Louis Hernandez
Never Ending Punishments: A Critical Commentary on Collateral Consequences – John F. Frana
Policy Implications of Contemporary Labeling Theory Research – Daniel R. Kavish
Piling On: Collateral Consequences and Community Supervision – Christopher Uggen & Robert Stewart
Criminal Justice and Families – Joyce Arditti
Turning “Weeds” Into “Seeds” – Alan Mobley
Excon: Managing a Spoiled Identity – Richard S. Jones
Political and Demographic Explanations of Felon Disenfranchisement Policies in the States – Daniel S. Murphy, Adam J. Newmark, & Phillip J. Ardoin
Maternal Distress and Women’s Reentry into Family and Community Life – Joyce Arditti & April Few
Policy Options to Mitigate the Criminal Record Barrier to Employment – Daniel S. Murphy, Stephen C. Richards, & Brian Fuleihan
The Electronic “Scarlet Letter”: Criminal Backgrounding and a Perpetual Spoiled Identity – Daniel S. Murphy, Brian Fuleihan, Stephen C. Richards, & Richard S. Jones
Convict Criminology Prisoner Re-entry Policy Recommendations – Stephen Richards, Jeffery Ian Ross, Greg Newbold, Michael Lenza, & Richard Jones
Reclaiming our Humanity: Redemption, Reimagining, and Restorying of the Foundations for Success of Formerly Incarcerated African American Males – Robert Mossi Alexander III
Criminal Justice System-Impacted Faculty: Motivations, Barriers, and Successes on the Academic Job Market – Bradley D. Custer, Michelle L. Malkin, & Gina Castillo
Absent Voices: Experiencing Prison Life from Both Sides of the Fence – A Turkish Female’s Perspective – Safak Bozkurt & Andreas Aresti
Stuck in the Carceral Web: Prisoners’ Experiences of Electronic Monitoring – James Gacek
Convicts in Court: Felonious Lawyers Make a Case for Including Convicted Felons in the Jury Pool – James M. Binnall
Empowerment Not Entrapment: Providing Opportunities for Incarcerated Women to Move Beyond “Doing Time” – Barbara H. Zaitzow
The System Is Not Broken, It Is Intentional: The Prisoner Reentry Industry as Deliberate Structural Violence – Jennifer M. Ortiz & Hayley Jackey
In the Pool without a Life Jacket: Status Fragility and Convict Criminology in the Current Criminological Era – Grant E. Tietjen & Daniel R. Kavish
“It’s Not a Conversation Starter.” Or is it?: Stigma Management Strategies of the Formerly Incarcerated in Personal and Occupational Settings – Nicholas Park & Grant E. Tietjen
An Eye Opener and a Door Opener: A Process Evaluation of ELEVATE CJS Leadership Programme (2023/24) – Ed Schreeche-Powell & Ella Simpson
Education
Challenging Whiteness in Higher Education Classrooms: Context, Content, and Classroom Dynamics – Denise Woodall
Instructing and Mentoring Ex-Con University Students in Departments of Criminology and Criminal Justice – Richard Tewksbury & Jeffrey Ian Ross
Analyzing For-Profit Colleges and Universities that Offer Bachelors, Masters, and Doctorates to Inmates Incarcerated in American Correctional Facilities – Jeffrey Ian Ross, Richard Tewksbury, & Miguel Zaldivar
From Corrections to College: The Value of a Convict’s Voice – Martin Leyva & Christopher Bickel
The Inviting Convicts to College Program – Chris Rose, Kristin Reschenberg, & Stephen Richards
Scaffolding Rubrics to Improve Student Writing: Preliminary Results of Using Rubrics in a Sociology Program to Enhance Learning and Mechanical Writing Skills – Linda Carson & Daniel R. Kavish
An Ex-Con Teaching Criminal Justice: The Etics-Emics Debate and the Role of Subjectivity in Academia – Daniel S. Murphy
Prison and University: A Tale of Two Institutions – Rod Earle
Knocking on Ivory Tower Door: Access and Inclusion of Higher Education via ODL in Prison – Muhammad Jeffery Hizwan & Oo Cheng Keat
Criminal Justice System-Impacted Faculty: Motivations, Barriers, and Successes on the Academic Job Market – Bradley D. Custer, Michelle L. Malkin, & Gina Castillo
Pratiche di conoscenza in carcere: Uno studio sui Poli Universitari Penitenziari – Gerardo Pastore
The First Step Is a Doozy: The Accessibility of Law School Applications for Incarcerated Students – James M. Binnall, Lauren M. Davis, & Anais Lopez
University in Prison: Tensions and Contradictions – Francesca Vianello
Taking Greenwich University Students to Visit HMP Wandsworth: A Collaborative, Reflective Piece Written with the Students – Ed Schreeche-Powell, Jack Tomlin, Brittanie Noon, Emma Hole, Cecilie Wicklund, Oana-Alexandra Sauca, Jade Hudson, Valeria Rossi, & Asya Mitisheva
Onward and Upward: The Significance of Mentorship for Formerly Incarcerated Students and Academics – Grant E. Tietjen, James Burnett, & Bernadette Olson Jessie
Prison Educators in the Shadow of Prison Rules: Results from a Field Research in Italy – Giovanni Torrente
Resistere Alla Retorica Rieducativa Nello Spazio Della Pena: Una Introduzione [Resisting Re-Educational Rhetoric in Space of Punishment: An Introduction] – Andrea Borghini & Gerardo Pastore
Prison/Jail/Mass Incarceration
The Future of Prison Visits? An Autoethnographic Perspective on the Developments of the Digitisation of Prison Visits During COVID-19 – Dwayne Antojado & Nicole Ryan
Le travail prisonisé Le point de vue des détenus [<<Prisonised>> Work: A Convict Perspective] – Elton Kalica
Health Care in the Federal Bureau of Prisons: Fact or Fiction – Daniel S. Murphy
Exoffender Accounts of Successful Reentry from Prison – Heather Hlavka, Darren Wheelock, & Richard Jones
Lessons for Prison Re-entry from the Feminist Movement – Deirdre Caputo-Levine
A Phenomenology of Freedom: Finding Transcendence in Captivity – Mark Alexander
An Ex-Con Teaching Criminal Justice: The Etics-Emics Debate and the Role of Subjectivity in Academia – Daniel S. Murphy
Self and Collective Efficacy in a Women’s Prison – Michelle L. Malkin
Glimpses Across 50 Years of Prison Life from Members of British Convict Criminology – Rod Earle & Bill Davies
Realignment in California: Policy and Research Implications – Barbara Owen & Alan Mobley
Kentucky’s Perpetual Prisoner Machine: It’s about Money – Stephen C. Richards, James Austin, & Richard S. Jones
Parallels in the Prison Experiences of Women and Men – Richard S. Jones & Thomas J. Schmid
Sex and Sexuality in Women’s Prisons: A Preliminary Typological Investigation – Angela Pardue, Bruce A. Arrigo, & Daniel S. Murphy
Short Time, Hard Time: Accounts of Short-Term Imprisonment – James A. Holstein & Richard S. Jones
The Overcrowding of Prison: Please Stop Talking about Square Metres – Elton Kalica
Convict Criminology Prisoner Re-entry Policy Recommendations – Stephen Richards, Jeffery Ian Ross, Greg Newbold, Michael Lenza, & Richard Jones
Prison and University: A Tale of Two Institutions – Rod Earle
Experiential Orientations to Prison Experience: The Case of First-Time, Short-Term Inmates – Thomas J. Schmid & Richard S. Jones
Finnish Criminal Policy: From Hard Time to Gentle Justice – Ikponwosa O. Ekunwe & Richard S. Jones
Prisoner Perspectives on Inmate Culture in New Mexico and New Zealand: A Descriptive Case Study – L. Thomas Winfree Jr., Greg Newbold, & S. Houston Tubb III
Public Attitudes Toward Crime and Incarceration in Finland – Ikponwosa Ekunwe, Richard S. Jones, & Kaley Mullin
Prisoners, Prison Executives, and Correctional Officers: Three Explorations into the US Prison Experience During the Era of Mass Incarceration – Jay W. Borchert
Decarceration Nation? Penal Downsizing and the Human Security Framework – Alan Mobley
Le Travail Prisonise Le Point De Vue Des Detenus (Prisonized Work: The Point of View of Detainees) – Elton Kalica
‘Who’s the Daddy?’ – Ideas about Fathers from a Young Men’s Prison – Rod Earle
What do Ethnographers do in Prison? – Rod Earle
It’s Been Hard to be a Father: A Qualitative Exploration of Incarcerated Fatherhood – Joyce Arditti, Sara A. Smock, & Tiffaney S. Parkman
Gangs and Environment: A Comparative Analysis of Prison and Street Gangs – Jennifer M. Ortiz
Knocking on Ivory Tower Door: Access and Inclusion of Higher Education via ODL in Prison – Muhammad Jeffery Hizwan & Oo Cheng Keat
Absent Voices: Experiencing Prison Life from Both Sides of the Fence – A Turkish Female’s Perspective – Safak Bozkurt & Andreas Aresti
Pratiche di conoscenza in carcere: Uno studio sui Poli Universitari Penitenziari – Gerardo Pastore
Stuck in the Carceral Web: Prisoners’ Experiences of Electronic Monitoring – James Gacek
The Impact of ‘Life’ Behind Bars: Understanding Space, Impression Management and Masculinity through Former Inmate Narratives – James Gacek
“Me Time”: (Re)Presenting Self and Carceral Spaces – James Gacek
‘Con-viviality’ and Beyond: Identity Dynamics in a Young Men’s Prison – Rod Earle & Coretta Phillips
Controlling Consensual Sex Among Prisoners – Jay W. Borchert
How American-based Television Commercials Portray Convicts, Correctional Officials, Carceral Institutions, and the Prison Experience – Jeffrey Ian Ross & Vickie Sneed
Inmate Responses to Correctional Officer Deviance: A Model of Its Dynamic Nature – Jeffrey Ian Ross, Richard Tewksbury, & Shawn M. Rolfe
A New Iron Closet: Failing to Extend the Spirit of Lawrence .v. Texas (2003) to Prisons and Prisoners – Jay W. Borchert
Private Prisons, Criminological Research, and Conflict of Interest: A Case Study – Gilbert Geis, Alan Mobley, & David Shichor
Death By Incarceration as a Cruel and Unusual Punishment when Applied to Juveniles: Extending Roper to Life Without Parole, Our Other Death Penalty – Robert Johnson & Sonia Tabriz
Drug Policy & Families: Casualties of the War – Joyce A. Arditti & Charles McClintock
Damaged Goods: Exploring Predictors of Distress in Prison Inmates – Andrew L. Hochstetler, Daniel S. Murphy, & Ronald L. Simons
Prevailing Injustices in the Application of the Missouri Death Penalty (1978 to 1996) – Michael Lenza, David Keys, & Teresa Guess
Seeing Shame: Legal Storytelling and Prisoner Rehabilitation – Alan Mobley
The View From the Other Side of the Fence: Incarcerated Women Talk about Themselves – Annette Kuhlmann
USP Marion: The First Federal Supermax – Stephen C. Richards
Vocational, Educational and Psychological Assessments of Deaf Inmates – Aviva Twersky-Glasner & Matthew J. Sheridan
Supermax Prisons – Jeffrey Ian Ross
Logical and Consistent? An Analysis of Supreme Court Opinions Regarding the Death Penalty – Matthew B. Robinson & Kathleen M. Simon
Coping with Separation: Adaptive Responses of Women Prisoners – Richard S. Jones
A Convict Perspective on the Classification of Prisoners – Stephen C. Richards & Jeffrey Ian Ross
Inmates’ Conceptions of Prison Sexual Assault – Richard S. Jones & Thomas J. Schmid
‘Muslim is the New Black’ – New Ethnicities and New Essentialisms in the Prison – Rod Earle & Coretta Phillips
Insider and Out: Reflections on a Prison Experience and Research Experience – Rod Earle
Boys’ Zone Stories: Perspectives from a Young Men’s Prison – Rod Earle
Prison Ethnography at the Threshold of Race, Reflexivity and Difference – Rod Earle & Coretta Phillips
Ethnicity, Multiculture and Racism in a Young Offenders’ Institition – Rod Earle
A Voice Within: An Autoethnographic Account of Moving from Closed to Open Prison Conditions by a Life-Sentenced Prisoner – Daniel Micklethwaite & Rod Earle
Referral Orders: Some Reflections on Policy Transfer and ‘What Works’ – Rod Earle, Tim Newburn, & Adam Crawford
A Phenomenology of Freedom: Finding Transcendence in Captivity – Mark Alexander
Release From Long-Term Restrictive Housing – Linda Carson
The Pains of Imprisonment and Contemporary Prisoner Culture in Canada – Laura McKendy & Rosemary Ricciardelli
Invisible Ghosts of Care and Penality: Exploring Canadian Correctional Workers’ Perceptions of Prisoner Well-Being, Accountability and Power – Matthew S. Johnston & Rosemary Ricciardelli
Books
Twenty Million Angry Men: The Case for Including Convicted Felons in our Jury System
James M. Binnall
Convict Criminology for the Future
Jeffrey Ian Ross & Francesca Vianello (Editors)
Behind a Convict’s Eyes: Doing Time in a Modern Prison
K. C. Carceral
Out of the Red: My Life of Gangs, Prison, and Redemption
Christian Bolden
The Marion Experiment: Long-Term Solitary Confinement and the Supermax Movement
Stephen Richards (Editor)
