The main aim of this essay is to explore prisoner life writing within the specific, richly and multiply dependent context of teaching and learning undergraduate criminology at an English university, from the authorial viewpoint of a teacher and her students as budding criminologists and coauthors. This article seeks to redress a continuing resistance to life history approaches in criminology, despite the discipline being formally devoted to the understanding of the meaning and experience of imprisonment in all its forms and consequences. What follows is a reflection on what students had to say on the fascinating subject of prisoner auto/biography and its place in popular and expert discourses on crime, criminality, and punishment, contextualised within the academic discipline of criminology.
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Prison(er) Auto/biography, 'True Crime', and Teaching, Learning, and Research in Criminology
Melissa Dearey, Bethanie Petty, Brett Thompson, Clinton R. Lear, Stephanie Gadsby, and Donna Gibbs
In Critical Survey
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2011
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 86–102 (16 total)
Contributors
Josie Billington, Melissa Dearey, Bethanie Petty, Brett Thompson, Clinton R. Lear, Donna Gibbs, Stephanie Gadsby, Tobi Jacobi, Joe Lockard, Sherry Rankins-Robertson, Simon Rolston, Anne Schwan, Breea C. Willingham, and Ed Wiltse
Notes on contributors