Hidden Injuries? Researching the Experiences of Older Men in English Prisons

Crawley, Elaine; Sparks, Richard

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2311.2005.00380.x

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“…Smith (1996), for instance, found this to be the case, noting that prison staff seemed reluctant to commit themselves to an interview. Similarly, Crawley and Sparks (2005) reported the difficulties in arranging interviews with prison staff and suggested that the regime, time constraints and staffing levels often inhibited the process. Prison staff were originally recruited into this study using Crawley and Sparks' (2005) 'wherever/whenever' approach to prison based recruitment.…”

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“…Similarly, Crawley and Sparks (2005) reported the difficulties in arranging interviews with prison staff and suggested that the regime, time constraints and staffing levels often inhibited the process. Prison staff were originally recruited into this study using Crawley and Sparks' (2005) 'wherever/whenever' approach to prison based recruitment. This is an ad-hoc and unstructured approach to participant recruitment that relies on the availability of staff at a given time.…”

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Prison staff and the health promoting prison

Dixey

Woodall

2011

International Journal of Prisoner Health

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Purpose: This paper aims to discuss some of the obstacles to implementing policy and strategy related to health promoting prisons. It focuses on the role of prison officers and raises issues concerning their conditions of service, training and organisational culture in a situation where the prison system faces security issues, overcrowding and high levels of illhealth among prisoners. Design/methodology/approach: This paper emerged as a result of significant overlapping themes between two separate studies conducted by the authors. The paper draws on the authors' qualitative data from these studies. Prison staff and the health promoting prison

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Section: "Prisoners Who Cannot Be Trusted In Open Conditions But Who mentioning

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Section: "Prisoners Who Cannot Be Trusted In Open Conditions But Who mentioning

confidence: 99%

Prison staff and the health promoting prison

Dixey

Woodall

2011

International Journal of Prisoner Health

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“…Recruiting prison staff for research purposes can often be more problematic than accessing prisoners (Smith, 1996;Crawley and Sparks, 2005). A sampling framework was designed to draw staff participants from various prison departments; this was devised with assistance from the primary gatekeeper in the prisons.…”

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Social and environmental factors influencing in‐prison drug use

Woodall

2011

Health Education

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Purpose:There is a strong political imperative to regard the prison as a key social setting for health promotion, but evidence indicates that drug misuse continues to be a significant issue for many prisoners. This paper examines the social and environmental factors within the setting that influence individuals' drug taking. Design/methodology/approach:Focus groups and interviews were conducted with prisoners and staff in three male training prisons in England. The sampling approach endeavoured to gain 'maximum variation' so that a broad based understanding of the prison setting could be gathered. The data were analysed in accordance with Attride-Stirling's (2001) thematic network approach. Findings:The findings suggest a myriad of social and environmental factors influencing drug use.Whilst staff recognised the scale of the drugs problem, they struggled to cope with creative inmates who were not perturbed by taking risks to gain their supplies. Fellow prisoners played a major role in individuals' decision making, as did the boredom of institutional life and Mandatory Drug Testing (MDT) policies within the institutions. Practical implications:Drug treatment is an essential component of prison healthcare, but it only forms a small part of creating a health promoting setting. If the health promoting prison is to be fully realised, a more radical, upstream and holistic outlook is required. Originality/value:The settings approach is an important theoretical and practical approach in health promotion. In comparison to other settings (such as schools), however, there has been limited research on the prison as a health promoting environment.

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“…For age to be a meaningful explanation of social behaviour, according to this argument, we need to ask which features are the ones mediating behaviour in this process labeled as aging. (p. 4) Since Shover's (1986) seminal US study Aging Criminals, some empirical attention has been given to the experiences of aging men and women in prison within England and Wales (Crawley and Sparks, 2005;2006;Mann, 2013;Wahidin, 2004). It remains however, that further work is needed to explicitly unpack 7 or flesh out the meaning of age in relation to desistance in ways that might contribute to an increased understanding of what Rocque (2014) describes as a 'complex and nuanced phenomenon ' (p.15).…”

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Aging bodies and desistance from crime: Insights from the life stories of offenders

Sparkes

Day

2016

Journal of Aging Studies

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The transition from crime to desistance and the role the aging body plays in this process has received little empirical scrutiny in the criminological literature. In this article, therefore, we seek to unpack and flesh out the meanings associated with the aging body for those involved in desistance. We draw on data from a larger study that examined the experiences of adults in England who had made successful transformations and desisted from crime, those who were trying to do so, and those who were struggling with this task. Our analysis of life story interviews conducted with these adults revealed the following key themes: the ambiguity of age; crime is a young persons game; tiredness; risk assessment, missing out and lost time. The nuanced ways in which each of these might operate to instigate a movement away from criminal activity and towards desistance is considered in detail. Our findings suggest that in order to better understand the dynamics of desistance that greater attention needs to be paid to the the aging body in criminal justice settings and that this project would benefit from collaborative efforts by those working in the fields of criminology, body studies and aging studies.

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Hidden Injuries? Researching the Experiences of Older Men in English Prisons

Cited by 72 publications

References 11 publications

Prison staff and the health promoting prison

Prison staff and the health promoting prison

Social and environmental factors influencing in‐prison drug use

Aging bodies and desistance from crime: Insights from the life stories of offenders

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