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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Prison studies"”.
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“Grinding the walls to dust”: feminist media praxis
… sites: a critical poetry workshop in a men's prison in Stillwater, Minnesota and a high school social justice theater program in St. Paul Central High School in St. Paul, Minnesota. The author, a feminist filmmaker and scholar, filmed both the prison poets and the high school students, and …
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Between the Rural and Suburban: The Social, Political, and Economic Dynamics of Policing Forsyth County, GA
… is often understudied in Critical Police and Prison Studies. </p>
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Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics
… work with Giovanni Mastrobuoni which focuses on prisoners and peer effects in prison. Studies that estimate criminal peer effects need to define the reference group. Researchers usually use the amount of time inmates overlap in prison, sometimes in combination with nationality to define such …
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Silent Punishment: The Experiences of d/Deaf Prisoners
While studies about minority group prisoners are becoming more commonplace in prison research, knowledge about the experiences of hard of hearing (HoH) and d/Deaf prisoners remains limited. A primary aim of this thesis is to provide a more comprehensive understanding about the lives of HoH/d/Deaf …
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Genealogies of Resistance to Incarceration: Abolition Politics within Deinstitutionalization and Anti-Prison Activism in the U.S.
… within de-institutionalization and anti- prison activism in the U.S." looks at two main sites in which abolition of "total institutions" is enacted. The first site is activism around penal and prison abolition. The second site is deinstitutionalization- the move to close down institutions …
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Big House: Women, Prison, and the Domestic
<p>Big House: Women, Prison, and the Domestic, addresses the development of the contemporary US carceral state, foregrounding the confinement and control of women and the evolving ideological frameworks and disciplinary techniques that guided women’s incarceration beginning with the inception of …
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Doin' Time: Entertainment and Exploitation at Decommissioned Prison Museums in the United States
<p>This thesis aims to explore how decommissioned prison museums in the US, such as Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary (BMSP), shape societal attitudes and understanding of the carceral system as a whole and the presence of systemic racism within by addressing three questions: (1) What histories do …
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Prison Sights: Carceral Counter-Visions in Documentary Film
… American domestic civilian and foreign military prisons. Though scholars have pointed to the interlocking systems of power that govern both spaces, this visuality renders them as fundamentally distinct in the public imagination. I argue that challenging and demystifying these power structures …