Remote Control: the role of TV in prison

Knight, Victoria

doi:10.1080/09627250508553039

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“…Going well beyond resources for education, information and entertainment, or even 'electronic babysitters', in-cell TV has been shown to assist viewers in preserving a sense of their pre-prison selves and retaining connections to their families and communities in otherwise dis-identifying and isolating circumstances (Jewkes, 2002;Knight, 2016). For some prison populations, television has been identified as the most significant factor in protecting a sense of self and ontological security (Grant and Jewkes, 2014).…”

Section: Background To 'New' Media Technologies In Prisons and To Thementioning

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A brave new world: The problems and opportunities presented by new media technologies in prisons

Jewkes

Reisdorf

2016

Criminology & Criminal Justice

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This article discusses the digital inequalities experienced by prisoners and the potential opportunities that providing 'new' media in prisons offers for offender rehabilitation and resettlement. Currently denied access to online and social media that most of us take for granted, and unable to communicate in ways that have become 'ordinary' in the wider community, it is argued that prisoners experience profound social isolation and constitute one of the most impoverished groups in the digital age. In prisons which provide selected prisoners some access to information and communication technologies, their high sociocultural status and consequent construction as a 'privilege' frequently results in them being used in the exercise of 'soft' power by prison officer gatekeepers. Moreover, when prisoners come to the end of their sentences, they not only are faced with prejudice and poor job prospects due to their criminal record, but their digital exclusion during a period of incarceration may have compound effects and lead to long-term and deep social exclusion. 1 The authors thank the anonymous reviewers for their helpful and insightful comments on an earlier draft of the article.

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Section: Background To 'New' Media Technologies In Prisons and To Thementioning

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A brave new world: The problems and opportunities presented by new media technologies in prisons

Jewkes

Reisdorf

2016

Criminology & Criminal Justice

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“…There is also an increasing body of research on carceral emotions (Knight 2016;Crewe et al 2014;Crawley 2004), and in relation to maternal incarceration, particularly in the USA (Flynn 2014;Bloom 1992;Baunach 1985;Enos 2001). Wahidin (2004) undertook valuable research on the older female prisoner population, but mothering, grand-mothering and emotion, although present in this work, was not its primary focus.…”

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Motherhood disrupted: Reflections of post- prison mothers

Baldwin

2018

Emotion, Space and Society

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“…In the context of prison settings, digital services have the potential to transform people's imprisonment and their journey towards desistance ("the longterm abstinence from criminal behaviour"; McNeil, Farrall, Lightowler & Maruna; 2012; pp.3). Knight (2015) highlights that the benefits of maintaining digital Moreover, in an academic context, Farley and Pike (2016) repeatedly evidence that digital engagement can help the learning journeys of people in prison. Reisdorf and Rikard (2018) helpfully recommend a 'model of digital rehabilitation and reentry' to account for how people in prison transition back into the community.…”

Section: Digitalisation Of Justicementioning

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Co-producing digitally-enabled courses that promote desistance in prison and probation settings

Morris¹,

Knight

2018

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to set out an approach to innovation in criminal justice settings that gives service users a “voice” through the co-production of digital content designed for services that promote desistance. The authors describe the benefits and challenges of involving service users in co-creating mediated digital content within a co-production framework. Design/methodology/approach This paper presents a new methodology for developing desistance-oriented programmes. The authors draw on a distinctive co-production exemplar within a prison setting that captures the perspectives of people who have shared their voices and the authors begin to explore the impact that co-production has had for them and for the service. Findings The testimonies of service users involved in this exemplar provide insights into the benefits and challenges of co-production in the criminal justice system more broadly. Practical implications Co-production is a credible service design strategy for developing digital services in prisons and probation; Complementary Digital Media (CDM) provides a promising pedagogical approach to promoting desistance; CDM enables service users to share their voice and stories to assist their peers. Digitally enabled courses to promote desistance can be well suited to peer support delivery models. Originality/value CDM is a novel approach that uses co-production to create highly tailored content to promote desistance in discrete target groups. CDM can be used to digitalise processes within traditional offending behaviour programmes (OBPs). It can also enable the development of innovative toolkit approaches for flexible use within day-to-day therapeutic conversations between service users and criminal justice staff or peer supporters. CDM thereby offers practitioners in criminal justice settings an entirely new set of evidence-informed resources to engage service users.

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Remote Control: the role of TV in prison

Cited by 6 publications

References 3 publications

A brave new world: The problems and opportunities presented by new media technologies in prisons

A brave new world: The problems and opportunities presented by new media technologies in prisons

Motherhood disrupted: Reflections of post- prison mothers

Co-producing digitally-enabled courses that promote desistance in prison and probation settings

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