Creative Writing and the Imagined Spaces of Imprisonment

2019 ◽  
pp. 55-72
Author(s):  
Lizzie Seal ◽  
Maggie O’Neill
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Creative Writing ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Writing Groups ◽  
Ghost Stories ◽  
Cultural Expression ◽  
Crime And Punishment ◽  
History Of ◽  
Participatory Arts ◽  
The City

This chapter discusses two creative writing projects with men in HM Prisons Lewes and Durham. It examines methodological issues associated with the relevance of space and setting to participatory arts (PA) research in prison, and the imaginative writing produced by participants. Memories, relationships, and the experience of ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ were all significant features of prisoners’ writing. This writing is read not simply as ‘research data’ but also as creative and cultural expression. The Lewes project involved using texts from the Mass Observation Archive as inspiration for prisoners’ poetry. Themes of creative writing, history and criminal justice are taken up in relation to the Durham project in which creative writing groups ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ Durham prison wrote ghost stories based on the prison and the history of crime and punishment in the city. These are explored in this chapter, along with a crime walk that was developed as part of the project, which serves as an example of public criminology.

Malaya Sadovaya in the History of Leningrad Unofficial Culture

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ainsley Morse
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Significant Shift ◽  
Writing Groups ◽  
Oral Culture ◽  
History Of

Malaya Sadovaya, a short street in Leningrad/St. Petersburg, is similarly the name for a loosely organized social and cultural scene encompassing, among other frequent visitors, a number of young poets. In the history of Leningrad unofficial culture, the Malaya Sadovaya poets represent a significant shift from a primarily “oral” culture of informal public and semipublic readings to a new orientation toward printed works: in 1965, several of the MS poets published a samizdat “almanac” of their work, Fioretti. Along the same lines, Malaya Sadovaya can be seen as marking a path from officially sponsored creative-writing groups to a self-consciously unofficial culture, implicitly (and sometimes explicitly) opposed to the mainstream Soviet aesthetic.

Local Chinese Dialects and Toponymity of Chinese Streets in Sibu, Sarawak

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wong Ling Yann ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Structural Formation ◽  
The Third ◽  
Qualitative Research Methodology ◽  
History Of ◽  
Chinese Dialects ◽  
Historical Comparative ◽  
The City

This paper aims to explore into the categories, structural formation, syllables and alphabetic characteristics of the naming of Chinese streets in Sibu, Sarawak. Sibu is the third biggest city in Sarawak, is also called “New Foochow” or “Little Foochow”. The Foochow people is one of the main ethnicities in Sibu. The Foochow culture and dialect play an important role in developing the history of Sibu. One of the significant influences of the Foochow culture and dialect towards the history of Sibu is the naming of the city streets in Chinese. This study adopts a qualitative research methodology to collect and analyse research data, where a historical comparative study is adopted to study the naming categories, the structural formation, syllables and alphabetic characteristics of the Chinese streets in Sibu.

scholarly journals Speech Acts Found in English Tourism Slogans Used in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-85
Author(s):  
Giyatmi Giyatmi ◽  
Purwani Indri Astuti ◽  
Ratih Wijayava
Keyword(s):  
Data Reduction ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Research Data ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Data Display ◽  
History Of ◽  
Directive Speech Acts ◽  
Effective Component ◽  
The City ◽  
Directive Speech

The research aims at describing the types and functions of speech acts in the tourism slogan in Indonesia. There has already been much research on tourism slogan, but only a few studies focusing on linguistics. To broaden the study of tourism slogans from a linguistics perspective, the research focuses on the speech acts in the tourism slogans. It belongs to descriptive qualitative research by focusing on the phenomena of tourism slogans in society. The data of the research are tourism slogans of some cities in Indonesia found on the internet. The technique of data collection used is content analysis. The technique of data analysis consists of data reduction, data display, and verification. There is no data reduction in this research. Data is displayed in the table and the last step data is analyzed based on the problem statements. The researchers found 31 data of tourism slogans. There are 4 types of speech acts in tourism slogans namely representative speech acts (13 data), directive speech acts (7 data), commissive speech acts (3 data), and expressive speech acts (8 data). The researchers find 3 functions of speech acts in the tourism slogan such as giving information about the history of the city, nickname of the city, hope or idea of the city (19 data), asking (7 data), and promising (5 data). The findings show that there is a tendency to be very simple in the slogans found. Besides, the slogans come with an exclusive appeal by emphasizing the effective component in the message.Keywords: tourism, slogans, speech acts. 

A Pacific Rim: Crime and Punishment in Santa Clara County, 1922

1992 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-152
Author(s):  
Lawrence M. Friedman ◽  
Paul Tabor
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
The West ◽  
The Public ◽  
Crime And Punishment ◽  
Santa Clara County ◽  
History Of ◽  
One Year

The history of American criminal justice is, to say the least, by no means an overplowed field. In fact, it has gotten systematic attention only in recent years. The public, of course, is fascinated with crime and horrified by crime; stories about crime and criminal justice cry out from the pages of newspapers and dominate movies and television. Historical research is another matter.The first half of the twentieth century should be a rich field for research. Records are available in abundance and in every county. Moreover, there are, particularly for the 1920s and 1930s, a fair number of state crime surveys and other empirical studies of criminal justice. California and the West, however, have been somewhat neglected. This article presents some data on one county, Santa Clara County, in one year, 1922, as a modest beginning.

scholarly journals A Critical Introduction to Arts Behind Bars

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aylwyn Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Literacy Outcomes ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
Critical Pedagogies ◽  
Creative Self ◽  
Professional Artists ◽  
Participatory Arts

This article proposes a focus on some of the arguments in the field—what is “arts behind bars”? What are some of the intentions, and why would people do it? It also signals the range of practices that are to be found—from the development of needlework in male prisons through to participatory arts projects with young people in prisons to collaborative stage shows. Artists working in criminal justice have a wide range of intentions. For a few, there might be a frisson of the danger and caged energy behind bars that is stimulating to creativity and could add something to their own creative process. The model of art for prisoners—professional artists staging a show or doing an unplugged music event in a prison—can raise the profile of prisons and punishment. However, there are a great number of projects that move towards forms of art created with and by prisoners, thereby aligning them with a long history of social and participatory arts. Theoretically, then, the arts behind bars are informed by critical pedagogies as much as the specific disciplinary approaches. This model seeks to build critical consciousness and confidence in mastery as well as induction into the discipline of learning any skill for the purposes of liberating through knowledge. In arts behind bars, the knowledge base might include literacy outcomes, but the learning is often communal, and about creative self-expression. The practitioners of arts behind bars have two driving intentions. Either they seek to engage more people with their art form and are willing to work in a range of contexts, or they are committed to social justice and hope to use the art form towards additional aims of generating understanding and redressing some of the inequalities experienced by prisoners. It is necessary to consider what new perspectives are offered to the subject of arts in criminal justice by thinking about how wider resources, culture, and artistic paradigms affect perceptions of the value of interventions. This highlights the need for awareness of those artists who choose to work in prisons of the moral and ethical questions raised by bringing art to the system.

Reforming Criminal Justice in the Ottoman Empire: Police, Courts and Prisons in Rusçuk, 1839-1864

2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-136
Author(s):  
Mehmet Celik
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
Crime And Punishment ◽  
Imperial Capital ◽  
Tanzimat Reforms ◽  
Penal Codes ◽  
The Government ◽  
The One ◽  
The City

Abstract This case study explores the experimentation phase of the Ottoman Tanzimat reforms on the criminal justice system in the city of Rusçuk from 1839-64. In particular, it investigates crime and punishment by focusing on police, courts, and prisons and how these institutions responded to reform efforts in Rusçuk, which became the capital of the Danube Province in 1864. It shows that the Ottoman government established new police forces (zaptiye) and modernised prisons in the city in 1846 immediately after their introduction in the imperial capital of Istanbul. At the same time, the government bestowed extensive judicial authority on the meclis-i kebir (a secular administrative council in the provinces), and to a lesser extent on the meclis-i muvakkat (temporary council), over criminal cases. While the Sharia courts continued to enforce Islamic criminal law, the meclis-i kebir took charge of enforcing the new penal codes of 1840, 1851, and 1858, and served as a precursor first to the secular courts of the 1864 Provincial Reform and then to the more centralised and standardised nizamiye courts of the 1870s. This study also analyses the types and frequency of crimes and the penalties they received. Based on Rusçuk’s prison registers, which contain the cases tried by the meclis-i kebir and meclis-i muvakkat, and the records of the meclis-i vala (Supreme Court) in Istanbul, it argues that the crime rate in Rusçuk was much higher than the one represented in the Sharia court’s records.

History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ferdinand Gregorovius ◽  
Annie Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City ◽  
The Middle Ages

History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ferdinand Gregorovius ◽  
Annie Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City ◽  
The Middle Ages

Ras al Khaimah: further archaeological discoveries

Antiquity ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 50 (200) ◽  
pp. 216-222
Author(s):  
Beatrice De Cardi
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
The State ◽  
Focused Attention ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

Ras a1 Khaimah is the most northerly of the seven states comprising the United Arab Emirates and its Ruler, H. H. Sheikh Saqr bin Mohammad al-Qasimi, is keenly interested in the history of the state and its people. Survey carried out there jointly with Dr D. B. Doe in 1968 had focused attention on the site of JuIfar which lies just north of the present town of Ras a1 Khaimah (de Cardi, 1971, 230-2). Julfar was in existence in Abbasid times and its importance as an entrep6t during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries-the Portuguese Period-is reflected by the quantity and variety of imported wares to be found among the ruins of the city. Most of the sites discovered during the survey dated from that period but a group of cairns near Ghalilah and some long gabled graves in the Shimal area to the north-east of the date-groves behind Ras a1 Khaimah (map, FIG. I) clearly represented a more distant past.

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