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Overview

Ben Crewe is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and has an extensive record of research primarily within the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology. Their work spans a broad range of subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, Management Science and Operations Research, and Demography.

Crewe's research topics cover numerous areas with a predominant focus on criminal justice and corrections analysis. Other significant topics include psychopathy, forensic psychiatry, and sexual offending, homelessness and social issues, crime patterns and interventions, child abuse and trauma, crime, illicit activities, and governance, as well as psychiatric care and mental health services.

The scientist's recent papers reflect the scope and thematic focus of their research. These include:

  • 'Tightness', recognition and penal power (2020), published in Punishment & Society
  • Nordic Penal Exceptionalism: A Comparative, Empirical Analysis (2022), published in The British Journal of Criminology
  • The depth of imprisonment (2020), published in Punishment & Society

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Crewe include Anna Schliehe, Julie Laursen, Alice Ievins, Kristian Mjåland, and Alison Liebling. This network suggests collaborative research efforts especially in criminology and related social sciences.

Crewe's work is often published in venues that focus on criminology, sociology, and related disciplines. Key publication outlets include CrimRxiv, The British Journal of Criminology, Punishment & Society, European Journal of Criminology, and Champ pénal.

In addition to journal articles, Ben Crewe has contributed to academic books, notably through the Palgrave studies in prisons and penology. One significant publication in this area is The Palgrave International Handbook of Youth Imprisonment (2021).

  • Social Sciences
  • Psychology

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Clinical Psychology
  • General Health Professions
  • Management Science and Operations Research
  • Demography

  • Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
  • Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
  • Psychiatric care and mental health services

  • Anna Schliehe
  • Julie Laursen
  • Alice Ievins
  • Kristian Mjåland
  • Alison Liebling

  • CrimRxiv
  • The British Journal of Criminology
  • Punishment & Society
  • European Journal of Criminology
  • Champ pénal

Best Publications

  • The Prisoner Society: Power, Adaptation and Social Life in an English Prison

    Ben Crewe

  • Depth, weight, tightness: Revisiting the pains of imprisonment

    Ben Crewe

  • Soft power in prison: Implications for staff–prisoner relationships, liberty and legitimacy:

    Ben Crewe

  • The emotional geography of prison life

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

    Ben Crewe

  • Staff culture, use of authority and prisoner quality of life in public and private sector prisons

    Ben Crewe;Alison Liebling;Susie Hulley

  • Pleasure at Work? Gender, Consumption and Work‐based Identities in the Creative Industries

    Sean Nixon;Ben Crewe

  • The Gendered Pains of Life Imprisonment

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  • Prisoner society in the era of hard drugs

    Ben Crewe

  • Not Looking Hard Enough Masculinity, Emotion, and Prison Research

    Ben Crewe

  • Conceptualising and Measuring the Quality of Prison Life

    Alison Liebling;Susie Hulley;Ben Crewe

  • Understanding Prison Staff

    Jamie Bennett;Ben Crewe;Azrini Wahidin

  • Representing Men: Cultural Production and Producers in the Men's Magazine Market

    Ben Crewe

  • Heavy-light, absent-present: rethinking the 'weight' of imprisonment.

    Benjamin Crewe;Alison Liebling;Susannah Hulley

  • The sociology of imprisonment

    Ben Crewe

  • Prison Drug Dealing and the Ethnographic Lens

    Ben Crewe

  • The prison as a reinventive institution

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  • Suppression, denial, sublimation: Defending against the initial pains of very long life sentences

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  • Staff-Prisoner Relationships, Staff Professionalism, and the Use of Authority in Public- and Private-Sector Prisons

    Benjamin Crewe;Alison Liebling;Susie Hulley

  • Respect in prisons: Prisoners’ experiences of respect in public and private sector prisons:

    Susie Hulley;Alison Liebling;Ben Crewe

  • Male prisoners’ orientations towards female officers in an English prison

    Ben Crewe

  • Codes and Conventions: the terms and conditions of contemporary inmate values

    Ben Crewe

  • Emotion regulation among male prisoners

    Ben Laws;Ben Crewe

  • Are Hope and Possibility Achievable in Prison

    Alison Liebling;Ben Laws;Elinor Lieber;Katherine Auty

  • Life Imprisonment from Young Adulthood Adaptation, Identity and Time

    Ben Crewe;Susie Hulley;Serena Wright

  • Swimming with the Tide: Adapting to Long-Term Imprisonment

    Ben Crewe;Susie Hulley;Serena Wright

  • Prisons beyond the New Penology: The Shifting Moral Foundations of Prison Management

    Alison Liebling;Ben Crewe

  • ‘Tightness’, recognition and penal power:

    Ben Crewe;Alice Ievins

Frequent Co-Authors

Shadd Maruna
Shadd Maruna Queen's University Belfast
David C. Pyrooz
David C. Pyrooz University of Colorado Boulder

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