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SUMMARY:'Imaginary Rehabilitation in the Imaginary Prison' - Professor Yvo
 nne Jewkes\, University of Bath
DTSTART:20200206T173000Z
DTEND:20200206T190000Z
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CONTACT:Professor Joe Murray
DESCRIPTION:Although not the focus of prison scholarship until very recent
 ly when researchers in criminology and carceral geography prompted a ‘sp
 atial turn’ in qualitative studies of imprisonment\, it is now common to
  highlight the spatial features of incarceration\, or to note the contribu
 tion physical environment makes to the pains of imprisonment\, even when t
 he study is ostensibly about something else. Opinions are often expressed 
 from an externalist\, privilege-centric viewpoint\, based on fleeting and 
 impressionistic experiences about what incarceration in these buildings mu
 st be like.  \nThis seminar will develop Carlen’s notion of ‘Imaginary
  Penalities’ to explore the ways in which penal architecture and design 
 have become regarded as symbolic indicators of rehabilitative intentions a
 nd outcomes. It will problematise the cultural export of Nordic penal exce
 ptionalism and its half-hearted importation into UK prisons and will argue
  that ‘rehabilitative culture’ is a myth that ignores material reality
 \, perpetuates the ‘imaginary prison’\, and masks the fact that not al
 l penal objectives\, however well-meaning\, are realisable.\n
LOCATION:B3 Institute of Criminology Sidgwick Site
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