A branch of criminology is led by researchers who served time in prison themselves
Convict criminology is an emerging academic field where the primary researchers are former inmates who use their lived experience to critique the prison system.
Founded by scholars like John Irwin and Stephan Richards, convict criminology challenges the traditional 'outsider' perspective of academic research by centering the voices of those who have survived incarceration. These researchers argue that traditional criminology often fails to account for the 'prisonization' process—the psychological adaptation required to survive the dehumanizing environment of a correctional facility.
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