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SUMMARY:Public Guest Seminar - 'The Texture of Imprisonment' - Inaugural P
 rofessorial Lecture - Professor Ben Crewe\, Institute of Criminology
DTSTART:20240229T170000Z
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CONTACT:R Greene
DESCRIPTION:One of the striking characteristics of comparative prison scho
 larship is that it has tended to stop at the gates of the prison\, drawing
  on relatively abstract measures\, like prison population rates\, which gi
 ve no sense of what imprisonment is actually like or how it varies. With a
  few exceptions\, studies of the inner world of the prison have also strug
 gled to capture the complexity of the way that penal power operates and ho
 w prisoners experience it. In this inaugural lecture\, I will reflect on t
 he contribution of my work to describing such matters. First\, I will outl
 ine the development of a framework that characterises imprisonment through
  a set of conceptual metaphors: ‘depth’\, ‘weight’\, ‘tightness
 ’ and breadth’. I will then explain how I have come to think of these 
 concepts as representing the ‘texture’ of imprisonment. I will conclud
 e by discussing how this framework relates to other ways of conceptualisin
 g and comparing prison regimes\, focussing in particular on matters of pen
 al order and legitimacy\, and advocating for approaches that marry the nor
 mative and the sociological: what prisons are trying to do\, the nature of
  their moral dialogue with prisoners\, and the social and existential dyna
 mics they produce.  
LOCATION:Seminar room\, Institute of Criminology Sidgwick Site
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