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Prison Resistance

Prison Resistance is a form of institutional resistance within the broader domain of African American Resistance, distinguished by acts of defiance, organizing, and survival strategies employed by incarcerated African Americans to challenge systemic oppression and dehumanization within correctional systems.

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3.2K

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54

Authors

33

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

8

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Publications

47

Arrested justice: black women, violence and America's prison nation

Uvanney Maylor · Ethnic and Racial Studies · 2013 · 578 citations

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Escape Attempts: The Theory and Practice of Resistance of Everyday Life.

Julian B. Roebuck, Stanley N. Cohen, Laurie Taylor · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 1979 · 354 citations

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Reassessing Resistance

Mary Bosworth, Eamonn Carrabine · Punishment & Society · 2001 · 216 citations

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Power, Adaptation and Resistance in a Late-Modern Men’s Prison

Ben Crewe · The British Journal of Criminology · 2006 · 188 citations

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Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era

Journal of American History · 2015 · 159 citations

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Authors

54

  1. AT
    Ashley T. Rubin

    University of Toronto, Canada

    3 publications · 173 citations

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  2. MB
    Mary Bosworth

    University of Oxford, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 289 citations

    2

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  3. ER
    Erica Rhodes Hayden

    1 publications · 19 citations

    1

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  4. KM
    Kieran McEvoy

    Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 58 citations

    1

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  5. CR
    Chandra Russo

    Colgate University, United States

    1 publications · 18 citations

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Institutions

33

  1. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    51 citations

  2. University of Ulster

    Coleraine, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    78 citations

  3. University of Essex

    Colchester, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    786 citations

  4. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    261 citations

  5. Arizona State University

    Tempe, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    29 citations

  6. University of Johannesburg

    Johannesburg, South Africa

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    21 citations

  7. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    62 citations

  8. Fordham University

    New York, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    432 citations

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Venues

  1. Theoretical Criminology

    2 publications · 103 citations

    2

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  2. The Prison Journal

    TPJ · 2 publications · 73 citations

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  3. Law & Social Inquiry

    2 publications · 98 citations

    2

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  4. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 2 publications · 132 citations

    2

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  5. Journal of Criminal Justice

    2 publications · 33 citations

    2

    h-index

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