Alice Ievins

Really happy that the articles in a themed issue of Incarceration on the Moral and Ethical Worlds of Coercive Confinement, edited by me and Ryan Williams, are beginning to come out. Over the next few days, I'll post about them, starting with our prologue: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/26…

The issue features a wide range of international contributions from confining institutions including prisons, nursing homes and post-release settings in England & Wales, Switzerland, the USA, Norway, Nicaragua & India. The intro is here...journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/26…

Is it possible to live a good life in confinement? How do 'official' moral discourses shape what prison makes morally possible, inside and outside? Join us on 17th Oct as we launch a special issue of Incarceration discussing these questions and more events.humanitix.com/themed-issue-l…

He argues that these different constructions are sometimes at odds with each other, and show that people with dementia are imagined as having a 'fragmented personhood'. In so doing, he demonstrated some of the unintended harms caused by institutions which intend to deliver care

He opens with a fascinating example of how the sexuality of women with dementia is routinely dismissed, and leads into a discussion of how staff in the homedefine people by their momentary acts of desire, by their relationships with others, and by their histories

In this contribution to our themed issue, Jago Wyssling considers how people with dementia are constructed as ethical subjects in Swiss nursing homes: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/26…

Fab new edition of the Prison Service Journal on women, criminalisation, and how gender affects pathways into the criminal justice system. crimeandjustice.org.uk/prison-service…

Regardless, for some prisoners, some of the time, they find that this absent-presence leaves them struggling to make sense of their sentence, their past and their futures. They were engaged in 'morally deep labour' but within 'institutions with shallower concerns

They question the strangeness of the moral world prisons create-people go there because they've been convicted of an offence, but said offence is rarely mentioned with staff. For some, this helps them focus on the everyday, but for those consumed with guilt, it feels like neglect

First up, Julie Laursen and Kristian Mjaland's contribution to this themed issue, 'The absent-presence of the offence in prisons in Norway and England & Wales' journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/26…

They find this absent-presence in prisons in two countries with very different penal cultures, they question where it comes from. Is it a result of a professional officer culture which focuses on the everyday? Or a reluctance to believe the state should invade the private sphere?

We really hope you read this prologue and find it an interesting and useful introduction to this way of thinking about confinement, and even more so, we hope you read the amazing articles our contributors have produced.

...and prompts us to consider why and how confining institutions exist as the 'moral assemblages' they are. We end by trying to grapple with how to empirically study ethics while also having our own ethical instincts - what should we do when we find practices we think are bad?

Really happy that the articles in a themed issue of Incarceration on the Moral and Ethical Worlds of Coercive Confinement, edited by me and Ryan Williams, are beginning to come out. Over the next few days, I'll post about them, starting with our prologue: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/26…

New article published Open Access!📚 SLSJ's Dr Ross McGarry & colleagues from @cardiffuni, @UniofExeter, @UniofBath & @uniofwarwick present a critical framework for understanding the harms produced by military institutions 🪖. 📖Read here:bit.ly/military-socia… @IcruLiverpool

This special issue of the Howard Journal of #Crime & #Justice is important for anyone looking at #prison, #coloniality, and #criminology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…