Prisoner Leaders - Leadership as Experience and Institution

This edited collection sheds light on an under-researched and often misconceived form of prison life, that of prisoner leadership. It offers a fresh approach to understanding the reality of the prison community, seeking out examples of prisoner leaders and their leadership qualities, uncovering new understandings of how such leadership supports and changes the community as well as shedding light on the conditions under which such leadership thrives. It explores a wealth of topics from race to drugs, violence, work, and faith. Each chapter is co-authored by an academic and a contributor with prison lived experience to centralise their knowledge and narratives on different leadership topics. It addresses key assumptions about the meaning and categorisation of what counts as 'a leader', why they matter, and what role they play in the implementation and mediation of punishment. This book enriches academic knowledge and provides a crucial intellectual stimulus for rethinking the 'why' and the 'how' of prison research.

List of contents

Foreword: Shadd Maruna.- 1 Introduction - A collaborative research approach to explore Prisoner Leadership (Marion Vannier and Paula Harriot).- 2 Prisoner Leadership and motherhood (Lucy Baldwin).- 3 Prisoner leadership and citizenship (Bethany Schmidt).- 4 Prisoner Leadership, work and selfhood (Donna Arondelle).- 5 Prisoner Leadership and education (Morwenna Bennalick).- 6 Prisoner Leadership and race (Chelsea Jackson).- Chapter 7 Prisoner leadership and drugs (Vlad Zaha).- 8 Prisoner leadership in immigration detention (Andriani Fili).- 9 Conclusion (Marion Vannier).

About the author

Marion Vannier is a senior lecturer in criminology at the University of Manchester, UK. Marion's research sits at the intersection of prison sociology criminal law, and human rights law, with a focus on long-term imprisonment. She is the recipient of a UKRI Future Leader Fellowship (2022).
 
Paula Harriott is CEO of the charity Unlock and a lived experience leader. Her work focuses on building more inclusive representation of people directly impacted by imprisonment and developing frameworks for participation and research that create spaces for new knowledge and practice to emerge.
 

Product details

• Assisted by: Harriott (Editor), Paula Harriott (Editor), Marion Vannier (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.02.2025
• EAN: 9783031787119
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3178711-9
• No. of pages: 214
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 16 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 395 g
• Illustrations: XVIII, 214 p. 1 illus.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Verbrechen und Kriminologie (Kriminalistik), Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte, Sozialwesen und soziale Dienste, Kommunal-, Regional- Landes und Lokalregierung, Human Rights, Resistance, Social Policy, auseinandersetzen, Critical criminology, Prison and Punishment, Punishment, Crime and Society, immigration detention, penal policy, Prison staff, Prison relationships, Prison dynamics, Drugs in prison, Power in prison, Prison practices