All Outputs (33)

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 (2024)
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Tomczak, P., & Mulgrew, R. (2024). Improving prisoner death statistics. 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.

(Re)constructing Prisoner Death Investigations: A Case Study of Suicide Investigations from England and Wales (2023)
Journal Article
Tomczak, P., Quinn, K., Traynor, C., & Wainwright, L. (2023). (Re)constructing Prisoner Death Investigations: A Case Study of Suicide Investigations from England and Wales. Law and Social Inquiry, 49(3), 1842-1876. https://doi.org/10.1017/lsi.2023.75

Because states must rebut the presumption of responsibility, all prisoner deaths must be investigated. These investigations frequently illustrate the tip of an iceberg of rights abuses and systemic hazards but have largely escaped analysis in prison-... Read More about (Re)constructing Prisoner Death Investigations: A Case Study of Suicide Investigations from England and Wales.

The Cruel Optimism of International Prison Regulation: Prison Ontologies and Carceral Harms (2023)
Journal Article
Kemp, T., & Tomczak, P. (2024). The Cruel Optimism of International Prison Regulation: Prison Ontologies and Carceral Harms. Law and Social Inquiry, 49(3), 1683-1714. https://doi.org/10.1017/lsi.2023.63

This article examines the development of international human rights standards and oversight mechanisms directed at addressing the negative effects of imprisonment. We identify this as the rules-based prison-regulation project, widely endorsed by inte... Read More about The Cruel Optimism of International Prison Regulation: Prison Ontologies and Carceral Harms.

Improving death investigations to promote safety. Case study: Prisoner deaths. Policy brief - September 2023 (2023)
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Tomczak, P. (2023). Improving death investigations to promote safety. Case study: Prisoner deaths. Policy brief - September 2023. University of Nottingham

Prisoners on prisons: Experiences of peer-delivered suicide prevention work (2023)
Journal Article
Buck, G., Tomczak, P., Harriott, P., Page, R., Bradley, K., Nash, M., & Wainwright, L. (2023). Prisoners on prisons: Experiences of peer-delivered suicide prevention work. Incarceration, 4, https://doi.org/10.1177/26326663231172023

Prison suicide is a global concern, with rates consistently exceeding those in non-incarcerated populations. Prisoners deliver (suicide prevention) initiatives in jurisdictions around the world. As part of a research project seeking to foreground pri... Read More about Prisoners on prisons: Experiences of peer-delivered suicide prevention work.

Making prisoner deaths visible: Towards a new epistemological approach (2023)
Journal Article
Tomczak, P., & Mulgrew, R. (2023). Making prisoner deaths visible: Towards a new epistemological approach. Incarceration, 4, https://doi.org/10.1177/26326663231160344

In custodial contexts, the duty of states to protect the most fundamental right-to life-is heightened. Nevertheless, prisoner deaths are a universal and frequent concern. The mortality rate among the 11.5 million prisoners globally is up to 50% highe... Read More about Making prisoner deaths visible: Towards a new epistemological approach.

Improving prisoner death investigations and promoting change in prisons: a findings and recommendations report (2023)
Report
Shalev, S., & Tomczak, P. (2023). Improving prisoner death investigations and promoting change in prisons: a findings and recommendations report. UKRI

Improving Prisoner Death Investigations And Promoting Prison Safety - Policy Brief (2023)
Report
Tomczak, P. (2023). Improving Prisoner Death Investigations And Promoting Prison Safety - Policy Brief. University of Nottingham

Prisoner Death Investigations: Setting the Agenda for Change (2022)
Journal Article
Tomczak, P., & McAllister, S. (2022). Prisoner Death Investigations: Setting the Agenda for Change. Prison Service Journal, 32-38

Deaths in prison: Examining causes, responses, and prevention of deaths in prison worldwide (2022)
Report
(2022). Deaths in prison: Examining causes, responses, and prevention of deaths in prison worldwide. Penal Reform International

Prisoners regulating prisons: Voice, action, participation and riot (2022)
Journal Article
Buck, G., & Tomczak, P. (2024). Prisoners regulating prisons: Voice, action, participation and riot. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 24(1), 144-163. https://doi.org/10.1177/17488958221101997

Prisoners are a critical source of prison regulation around the world, but regulation by (rather than of) prisoners remains little analysed. In this article, we utilise the 1990 riots at HMP Strangeways (England), as a case study of prisoners (re)sha... Read More about Prisoners regulating prisons: Voice, action, participation and riot.

Complaints: Mechanisms for prisoner participation? (2022)
Journal Article
Banwell-Moore, R., & Tomczak, P. (2022). Complaints: Mechanisms for prisoner participation?. European Journal of Criminology, 20(6), 1878-1898. https://doi.org/10.1177/14773708221094271

In prisons, participatory mechanisms can foster important outcomes including fairness, legitimacy and dignity. Complaints are one significant (symbolic) mechanism facilitating prisoner participation. Ombud institutions/ Ombudsmen handle complaints ex... Read More about Complaints: Mechanisms for prisoner participation?.

Bereaved Family ‘Involvement’ in (Prisoner) Death Investigations: Whose ‘Satisfaction’? (2022)
Journal Article
Tomczak, P., & Cook, E. A. (2023). Bereaved Family ‘Involvement’ in (Prisoner) Death Investigations: Whose ‘Satisfaction’?. Social and Legal Studies, 32(2), 294-317. https://doi.org/10.1177/09646639221100480

A duty to investigate deaths in detention is enshrined within international legislation including Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). A core purpose of these investigations, following UK case law, is that bereaved families ‘h... Read More about Bereaved Family ‘Involvement’ in (Prisoner) Death Investigations: Whose ‘Satisfaction’?.

‘The human toll’: Highlighting the unacknowledged harms of prison suicide which radiate across stakeholder groups (2022)
Journal Article
Banwell-Moore, R., Tomczak, P., Wainwright, L., Traynor, C., & Hyde, S. (2022). ‘The human toll’: Highlighting the unacknowledged harms of prison suicide which radiate across stakeholder groups. Incarceration, 3(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/26326663221097337

Highlighting “Risky Remands” Through Prisoner Death Investigations: People With Very Severe Mental Illness Transitioning From Police and Court Custody Into Prison on Remand (2022)
Journal Article
Tomczak, P. (2022). Highlighting “Risky Remands” Through Prisoner Death Investigations: People With Very Severe Mental Illness Transitioning From Police and Court Custody Into Prison on Remand. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13, Article 862365. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.862365

Prison suicide/self-inflicted death is an international public health crisis, harming stakeholders including bereaved families, prisoners, prison staff and death investigators. England and Wales' record prison suicide numbers in 2016 cost at least £4... Read More about Highlighting “Risky Remands” Through Prisoner Death Investigations: People With Very Severe Mental Illness Transitioning From Police and Court Custody Into Prison on Remand.

“How you keep going”: Voluntary sector practitioners' story-lines as emotion work (2022)
Journal Article
Quinn, K., Tomczak, P., & Buck, G. (2022). “How you keep going”: Voluntary sector practitioners' story-lines as emotion work. British Journal of Sociology, 73(2), 370-386. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12914

The voluntary sector acts as the last line of defense for some of the most marginalized people in societies around the world, yet its capacities are significantly reduced by chronic resource shortages and dynamic political obstacles. Existing researc... Read More about “How you keep going”: Voluntary sector practitioners' story-lines as emotion work.

Woodhill. A short film (2021)
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Tomczak, P., Buck, G., & Woodhead, M. (2021). Woodhill. A short film. University of Nottingham

This is how it Feels: Activating Lived Experience in the Penal Voluntary Sector (2021)
Journal Article
Buck, G., Tomczak, P., & Quinn, K. (2022). This is how it Feels: Activating Lived Experience in the Penal Voluntary Sector. British Journal of Criminology, 62(4), 822-839. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azab102

Increasing calls for 'nothing about us without us' envision marginalised people as valuable and necessary contributors to policies and practices affecting them. In this paper, we examine what this type of inclusion feels like for criminalised people... Read More about This is how it Feels: Activating Lived Experience in the Penal Voluntary Sector.