Outputs (4)

Improving prisoner death statistics: policy brief October 2024 (2024)
Report
Tomczak, P., & Mulgrew, R. (2024). Improving prisoner death statistics: policy brief October 2024. University of Nottingham

Prisoner mortality rates are up to 50% higher than rates in the community, forming a global human rights and health equity concern, and producing tremendous harms and costs. In 2023, a UN Special Rapporteur warned that ‘prisoners are … dying needless... Read More about Improving prisoner death statistics: policy brief October 2024.

Mobilizing Metaphors in Criminological Analysis: A Case Study of Emotions in the Penal Voluntary Sector (2024)
Journal Article
Quinn, K., Buck, G., & Tomczak, P. (2024). Mobilizing Metaphors in Criminological Analysis: A Case Study of Emotions in the Penal Voluntary Sector. British Journal of Criminology, 64(6), 1239-1258. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azae027

Metaphors pervade media and political constructions of crime and justice, provoking responses and shaping actions. Scholarship in adjacent disciplines illustrates that emotion-metaphors offer unique insight into emotional and interpretive processes,... Read More about Mobilizing Metaphors in Criminological Analysis: A Case Study of Emotions in the Penal Voluntary Sector.

Co-creating prisons knowledge inspired by collective autoethnography (2024)
Journal Article
Buck, G., Harriott, P., & Tomczak, P. (2024). Co-creating prisons knowledge inspired by collective autoethnography. Prison Service Journal, 272, 4-11

This is a story, a kind of map, about a study we co-produced on prison peer support work. The social science community call these mapping stories methodology papers. We have tried to write this one in an informal (less academic) style to appeal to a... Read More about Co-creating prisons knowledge inspired by collective autoethnography.

Improving prisoner death statistics: policy brief February 2024 (2024)
Report
Tomczak, P., & Mulgrew, R. (2024). Improving prisoner death statistics: policy brief February 2024. University of Nottingham

Prisoner mortality rates are up to 50% higher than rates in the community, forming a global human rights and health equity concern, and producing tremendous harms and costs. In 2023, a UN Special Rapporteur warned that ‘prisoners are … dying needless... Read More about Improving prisoner death statistics: policy brief February 2024.