- Title
- Transgressive decor : Narrative glimpses in Australian prisons, 1970s-1990s
- Creator
- Wilson, Jacqueline
- Date
- 2008
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/64028
- Identifier
- vital:2296
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1177/1741659008096370
- Identifier
- ISSN:1741-6590
- Abstract
- This article presents a number of examples of prison inmate graffiti photographed by the author in Australian decommissioned prisons. The images are examined with regard to aspects of the sociology and social psychology of the prison environment. Abiding themes of prison life are identified and discerned as factors contributing to the content of the graffiti. These include especially power relationships, sexuality, revenge, violence, boredom and the simple desire for some form of entertainment, however fleeting.
- Relation
- Crime Media Culture Vol. 4, no. 3 (2008), p. 331-348
- Rights
- Copyright Sage
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Dark tourism; Deviance; Narrative; Prison graffiti; Violence
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