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The Sociological Imagination : Reflections of a Prisoner in Australia
Antojado, D.
Antojado, D.
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Abstract
The sociological imagination (SI) has been an important framework relied upon by the field of sociology. This paper intertwines the SI with reflexive narrative to illuminate insight into the carceral experience from the perspective of an incarcerated person. Combining reflexive practice and drawing on various sociological principles, it delves deeply into the emotions, concerns, context in how the prison system fails incarcerated people. Interrogating various themes including, employment, homosexuality in prisons, and the underlying social misconceptions of the utility of prisons; It spotlights the realities of people under the care and control of the correctional system by drawing on autoethnography, theory and empirical evidence. The use of the SI in elaborating upon the carceral experience provides a more intimate approach not otherwise explored in the traditional modes of criminological inquiry, adding an important person-centred dimension to the analysis of the carceral experience.
Keywords
Sociological Imagination, prisoner, reflection, reflexivity, carceral experience, C. Wright Mills
Date
2022
Type
Journal article
Journal
European Journal of Behavioral Sciences
Book
Volume
5
Issue
4
Page Range
21-30
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ACU Department
Thomas More Law School
Faculty of Law and Business
Faculty of Law and Business
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Open Access Status
Published as ‘gold’ (paid) open access
License
CC BY 4.0
File Access
Open
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© The Author(s). 2022.
Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and redistribution in any medium, provided that the original author(s) and source are credited. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and redistribution in any medium, provided that the original author(s) and source are credited. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/