Journal of Prisoners on Prisons V23 #2
- Publisher
- Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2015
- Category
- Penology, Criminology
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780776609478
- Publish Date
- Feb 2015
- List Price
- $20.00
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Description
Edited by Sarah Fiander (Wilfrid Laurier University – Brantford), Ashley Chen (University of Ottawa) and Justin Piché (University of Ottawa), Volume 23(2) of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons features selected papers written by prisoners presented at the Fifteenth International Conference on Penal Abolition (ICOPA 15) which discussed prison, abolitionism and reform. Published in English.
About the authors
Justin Piché is associate professor in the Department of Criminology and director of the Carceral Studies Research Collective at the University of Ottawa. He is also co-editor of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, a founding member of the Criminalization and Punishment Education Project, and researcher for the Carceral Cultures Research Initiative. His research examines how criminalization and confinement is justified and resisted during state campaigns to expand carceral controls and in popular culture.
Sarah Fiander is an MA student in the Department of Criminology at Wilfrid Laurier University – Brantford.
Ashley Chen is an MA student in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa.