Prison Discourse

Prison Discourse

With unique and powerful data from within a big city prison, this book clarifies the role that conversational analysis can have within a Critical Discourse Analysis perspective. In a detailed linguistic analysis of the language use of prison officers and prisoners involved in a prison based course, the author charts the shifting power relations of control and resistance and situates the findings in a broader sociological analysis of the prison as an institution. The study will interest sociolinguists, discourse analysts, and researchers in communication studies, criminology and counselling.

Captured by the Media

These articles examine how media presents prisons and punishment, and how this presentation is related to public attitudes and government penal policy.

The Actual State of Prison Reform Throughout the Civilized World. A Discourse Pronounced at the Opening of the International Prison Congress of Stockholm, Aug. 20, 1878