Professor Yvonne Jewkes
Yvonne Jewkes is a Professor of Criminology at Leicester University. Her main current research interest is prisons and the sociology of imprisonment, especially prison design and prison culture, including social networks, constructions of masculine identities and flows of power in prisons. She has recently guest edited a special issue of "Qualitative Inquiry "on Doing Prison Research Differently April 2014: 20(5); a special issue (with Ben Crewe) of "Punishment & Society" on 'The Pains of...See more
Yvonne Jewkes is a Professor of Criminology at Leicester University. Her main current research interest is prisons and the sociology of imprisonment, especially prison design and prison culture, including social networks, constructions of masculine identities and flows of power in prisons. She has recently guest edited a special issue of "Qualitative Inquiry "on Doing Prison Research Differently April 2014: 20(5); a special issue (with Ben Crewe) of "Punishment & Society" on 'The Pains of Imprisonment Revisited' December 2011: 13(5); and a special issue of "Prison Service Journal" on the theme of 'Prison Space' 2010 Vol 187. Yvonne is currently conducting a major ESRC-funded study of prison architecture, design and technology and is also working on new editions of her best-selling books: a 3rd edition of "Media & Crime"; a new US edition of "Media & Crime" (with Travis Linnemann); and a 2nd edition of the "Handbook on Prisons" (with Ben Crewe and Jamie Bennett). See less
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