Sökning: "Prison Studies"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 36 avhandlingar innehållade orden Prison Studies.
1. Smuggle, Frame, Shoot : Illicit Media Practices and Visual Insurgency from Lebanese Incarceration
Sammanfattning : This research explores prisoners’ illicit use of digital-media technology during their incarceration in Lebanon. Prisoners smuggle cellphones and access internet and telecommunication connection to produce and mediate videos, images, and voice recordings documenting quotidian experiences of imprisonment, violent events, and the COVID-19 Pandemic inside the notorious and overcrowded Roumieh Central Prison. LÄS MER
2. The Horror-Storied Prison : A Narrative Study of Prison as an Abject and Uncanny Institution
Sammanfattning : In terms of time as well as in terms of depth, prison is a storied institution. Many-layered tales have been told about it since its inception. A prominent theme of these stories is how they configure belonging and otherness through horror-iconography. LÄS MER
3. Fängelset som välfärdsbygge : Tre studier om behandlingstanken i svensk fångvård
Sammanfattning : This thesis discusses "social engineering", in the fields of prison treatment, during the development of the Swedish Welfare State, from 1930 to 1950. The penal political ambitions were laid down under a Social Democratic government and realized in the party’s program of 1944. LÄS MER
4. Ship sense - exploring the constituents of shiphandling
Sammanfattning : Although shipping is regarded as one of the oldest transportation domains there still seem to be only a limited amount of research addressing the task of handling a vessel. Therefore the purpose of this thesis has been to shed more light on the concept of shiphandling and its constituents. LÄS MER
5. Enhancing Health Among Drug Users in Prison
Sammanfattning : Four interrelated studies on drug users in prison are presented within the framework of a proposed model for approaching the enhancement of health for persons that builds on an existential view of prisoners’ needs, as well as the risk management and “good lives” perspectives. Risk management is the major focus in current offender rehabilitation based on research on “what works,” which has shown that focusing treatment on risk factors termed “criminogenic needs,” such as impulsivity, poor family relations and drug abuse, reduces recidivism by 10-15 percentage points. LÄS MER