Beyond Autoethnography by Antojado, Dwayne; Darley, Danica; Maycock, Matthew;

Short description:

Highlighting the complex human realities that exist within the criminal justice system, this book foregrounds scholars and activists who harness their own encounters with policing, courts, and imprisonment to recast criminological theory, method, and policy, proving lived experience as important to criminological and sociological enquiry.

Long description:

Highlighting the complex human realities that exist within the criminal justice system, this book foregrounds scholars and activists who harness their own encounters with policing, courts, and imprisonment to recast criminological theory, method, and policy, proving lived experience as an important aspect of criminological and sociological enquiry.

Grounding lived experiences within broader sociological, psychological, and criminological theories, this book advocates ethically established perspectives that centre marginalised voices and embed lived experience wisdom, knowledge and expertise in scholarship and professional practice.

Beyond Autoethnography: Lived Experience Criminology will be of interest to students, scholars, and criminal justice professionals.

'As this important new collection vividly demonstrates, the ways that criminology engages with lived experiences are changing. Increasingly, lived experiences are valued not merely as ‘data’ for academics to interpret and analyse. Rather, they are seen as hard-earned and embodied forms of knowledge with which criminology must engage in a dialogue characterised above all by respect. The first part of that dialogue, for criminologists, has to be a deep and self-critical form of listening. I hope readers will hear and heed the diverse and important voices contained in this collection; there is so much to learn from them and with them.'
Fergus McNeill, Professor of Criminology and Social Work, University of Glasgow

'The collection, edited by Maycock, Antojado, and Darley, provides a compelling exposure to the three arms of the justice system – policing, courts, and correctional services -with both an academic and lived experience lens across four sections, the final focused on “applying lived experience”. With poetry and evidence, the humanness underpinning legal processes is centralized to create a reflective text leaving the reader with much to ponder, good and bad. An essential and powerful contribution to understanding justice, empathy, and the transformative potential of lived experience – definitely, a must read!'
Rosemary Ricciardelli, Professor of Sociology and Criminology, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Table of Contents:

1.Foreword.  2.Acknowledgement.  3.Introduction: Redrawing the Boundaries of Criminological Knowledge.  Part 1: Police and Lived Experience.  4.Extract 16 From Cell 101.  5.Silent Voices: Workplace Discrimination and Microaggressions Experienced by Women in Law Enforcement.  6.Neurodiversity at the Nexus: Addressing the Challenges and Opportunities at the Intersections of Neurodiversity and Law Enforcement.  7.A Descriptive Scientific Phenomenological Approach to Criminology and Criminal Legal Research.  Part 2: Courts and Lived Experience.  8.The Lucifer Effect.  9.Moving From “Offenders” to Partners: Reflections on the Potential for Courts as Co-designed Institutions.  10.Feminist Perspectives of Lived Experience of the Criminal Courts Connecting the Continuum: Women’s Ways of Knowing and the Criminal Courts.  Part 3: Punishment and Lived Experience.  11.6 Years Old.  12.Mapping the Unassimilable: Carceral Narratives through Lived Experience, Psychoanalysis, and Agonism.  13.Out of the Frying Pan? A Personal and Scholarly Interest in Protective Housing in Prisons: Reflecting on Vulnerability, Decision-Making and the Quest for Humane Penal Practices.  14.From Prison to Halfway House: Using Lived Experience and Feminist Co-Ethnography to Reform Community Corrections.  Part 4: Applying Lived Experience.  15.Concrete Cage.  16.The Role of Prison Radio and Storytelling in Generative Criminology.  17.Resisting Carceral Colonialism through Lived Experience in Night Patrol Research.  18.The Living, Being, and Doing of Praxis: Insurgent-Knowledge-Making through ‘Liberatory Experiential Epistemology’ and ‘Radical Autoethnography’ in the Free Palestine Movement.  19.From the chaotic debris of experience, we select fragments…. arguing with lived experience of the criminal justice system and taking lessons for convict criminology.