“Penal Power, Then, Exercises a Grip That Has Become Tighter and More Demanding, Even if in Many Respects its Form Has Softened”: Interview With Ben Crewe
Résumé
PhD. in Sociology, Ben Crewe is Professor of Penology and Criminal Justice at the University of Cambridge, where he co-heads the Prison Research Centre. For the past twenty years, his work has focused on a wide range of dimensions of prison life and the everyday life of incarceration, mainly in England and Wales. In 2009, he wrote a major book – The Prisoner Society – which analyses the transformations of prison power and their consequences on relations between prison officers and prisoners, prison to social life and the experience of incarceration. In addition to several collective books (Bennett et al., 2008; Jewkes et al., 2016), he has recently published, with Susie Hulley and Serena Wright, Life Imprisonment from Young Adulthood (Crewe et al., 2020). He is currently conducting comparative research on penal policies and prison experiences in England, Wales and Norway, as well as a longitudinal study of prisoners serving very long sentences.
