The Journal of Prisoners on Prisons: Reflections on Practice

• In Event: Convict Criminology Session 3: Reflections on the Role, Significance and Practice of Prison Writing

Abstract

Since 1988, the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons (JPP) has been a peer-reviewed and academically oriented journal dedicated to the publication of articles authored or co-authored by current and former prisoners. This presentation briefly reflects on the process used by the journal to facilitate the dissemination of ethnographic accounts by prisoners, as well as the constraints and possibilities of this approach to producing knowledge on confinement and punishment. Following these remarks there will be a reading of an article to be published in a future issue of the JPP.

Author

• Justin Piche, University of Ottawa