Description: This is the first single authored book to trace the emergence of Convict Criminology and explore its relevance beyond the USA to the UK and other parts of Europe. It presents uniquely reflexive scholarship combining personal experience with critical perspectives on contemporary penology, focussing explicitly on men.
Brief description: Dr Rod Earle is Senior Lecturer in Youth Justice in the Faculty of Health & Social Care at The Open University. Prior to his academic career Rod worked as a printer in Norwich and as a youth justice social worker for the London Borough of Lambeth. In 1982 he served a three month prison sentence in HMP Norwich.
Review Quotes: "A deeply reflective, personal, as well as analytical account, Rod Earle's Convict Criminology makes a valuable contribution to debates about an 'insider' perspective in criminology, and its importance to our understanding of the processes of criminal (in)justice." Criminology and Criminal Justice