All Outputs (3)

Abstraction, belonging and comfort in the prison classroom (2022)
Journal Article
Little, R., & Warr, J. (2023). Abstraction, belonging and comfort in the prison classroom. Incarceration, 3(3), Article 26326663221142759. https://doi.org/10.1177/26326663221142759

Prison education, at the institutional and policy level, is too often about the use value of qualifications, rather than the exchange value inherent in the experience of learning. This article explores how abstract discussion can be used to resolve t... Read More about Abstraction, belonging and comfort in the prison classroom.

Sensory “Heteroglossia” and Social Control: Sensory Methodology and Method (2022)
Book Chapter
Herrity, K., Schmidt, B. E., & Warr, J. (2022). Sensory “Heteroglossia” and Social Control: Sensory Methodology and Method. In M. Dodge, & R. Faria (Eds.), . Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18401-7_8

Heteroglossia refers to the presence of multiple voices and views – exchanges that are central to the academic project (Bakhtin, The dialogic imagination: four essays (trans. and ed: Emerson C, Holquist M). University of Texas Press, 1981; Clarke, Cr... Read More about Sensory “Heteroglossia” and Social Control: Sensory Methodology and Method.

Whitening Black Men: Narrative Labour and the Scriptural Economics of Risk and Rehabilitation (2022)
Journal Article
Warr, J. (2023). Whitening Black Men: Narrative Labour and the Scriptural Economics of Risk and Rehabilitation. British Journal of Criminology, 63(5), 1091-1107. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azac066

'You know what? You can't be a "Black Man"in prison.' Negative impositions of Blackness, grounded in the myths of Black Criminality, shape assessments of risk and rehabilitation within the scriptural economy of the contemporary prison This creates a... Read More about Whitening Black Men: Narrative Labour and the Scriptural Economics of Risk and Rehabilitation.