The Arts of Imprisonment

Leonidas K. Cheliotis is Lecturer in Criminology and Deputy Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice at the School of Law, Queen Mary, University of London, UK. In 2015 he was awarded the Outstanding Critical Criminal Justice Scholar Award, given annually by the Critical Criminal Justice Section of the American Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences 'for distinguished accomplishments in critical criminal justice scholarship across the most recent two-year period'. He was awarded the ASC 2013 Critical Criminologist of the Year Award ’for distinguished accomplishments in research which have symbolised the spirit of the Division in recent years', conferred by the Division on Critical Criminology of the American Society of Criminology.

Contents: The arts of imprisonment: an introduction, Leonidas K. Cheliotis; Aesthetics and an-aesthetics: the architecture of incarceration, Yvonne Jewkes; Telling prison stories: the spectacle of punishment and the criminological imagination, Eamonn Carrabine; Victor Hugo and Octave Mirbeau: a sociological analysis of imprisonment in fiction, Vincenzo Ruggiero; Masculinity, violence, and art in Tennessee Williams' Not About Nightingales, Thomas Fahy; Social documentary in prison: the art of catching the state in the act of punishment, Michelle Brown; Thug life: Hip Hop's curious relationship with criminal justice, andré douglas pond cummings; Art, constraint and memory: Egon Schiele in prison, W. B. Carnochan; 'The haircut's on the house': Rebetika songs and Greek prisons, Stathis Gauntlett; Art and autonomy: prison writers under siege, Robert Johnson; Prose and cons:autobiographical writing by British prisoners, Mike Nellis; Resistance or propaganda, self-expression or solipsism? Prison writing and the Red Army Faction prisoners in West Germany, 1973-77, Sarah Colvin; 'Safe havens': the formation and practice of prison choirs in the US, Mary L. Cohen; Teaching and learning: the pedagogy of arts education in prison settings, Rachel Marie-Crane Williams; Comparing art therapy in prisons to 'arts-in-corrections': process to product and back again, David Gussak; Creative encounters: whatever happened to the arts in prisons?, Alexandra Cox and Loraine Gelsthorpe; Harmony behind bars: evaluating the therapeutic potential of a prison-based music programme, Léon Digard and Alison Liebling; Awaiting justice in South African prisons: performing human rights in a state of exception, Aylwyn Walsh; Index.