Convict criminology (CC) is based on the belief that the convicts voice has been traditionally ignored or marginalized in scholarship and policy debates, and that its inclusion can positively impact the fields of corrections, criminology, criminal justice, and policy making. Designed for students, scholars, and activists worldwide this is the first sole-authored book to comprehensively explain the CC approach to scholarship, teaching, mentorship, and prison and criminal justice activism. It reviews the history and scholarship on this engaging field and the challenges that the approach has encountered. It features: exhibit boxes keywords test questions - including multiple choice, short answer and essay format.
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Dimensions: 170 x 244mm
Publication Date: 30 Apr 2024
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781529221206
About Jeffrey Ian RossPh.D.
Jeffrey Ian Ross is Professor in the School of Criminal Justice and Research Fellow with the Center for International and Comparative Law and the Schaefer Center for Public Policy at the University of Baltimore. In 2018 Ross was given the Hans W. Mattick Award for an individual who has made a distinguished contribution to the field of Criminology & Criminal Justice practice from the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 2020 he received the John Howard Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Division of Corrections. The award is the ACJS Corrections Sections most prestigious award and was given because of his outstanding research and service to the field of corrections. In 2020 he was honored with the John Keith Irwin Distinguished Professor Award from the ASC Division of Convict Criminology. During the early 1980s Jeff worked for almost four years in a correctional institution.