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This page shows news items and blog posts from past and current projects. The ‘changing inside’ category shows content originally published at the Changing Inside blog.

Remembering Fishmongers Hall

Five years on
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Reflections on and remembrance of the 2019 London Bridge attack
2024-11-29
Ben Jarman

Welcome to my new academic homepage

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Announcing the launch of benjarman.uk
2024-11-27
Ben Jarman

“…even roses grow out of sh*t, don’t they?“

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changing inside
research log
Reflections on an interview with ‘P’, who described what it was like to try and do good when you’re also labelled as bad
2020-12-20
Ben Jarman

“I’ve been perfectly happy in prison”

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changing inside
research log
Reflections on an interview with an elderly lifer who said he had enjoyed his prison sentence, and didn’t feel as though he had been punished at all
2020-11-27
Ben Jarman

New publication: Only one way to swim?

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changing inside
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News item describing a new peer-reviewed publication
2020-05-05
Ben Jarman

Three stories

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changing inside
research log
Three stories one interviewee told about briefly visiting the outside world during a very long prison sentence
2020-02-06
Ben Jarman

Interviews as power games

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changing inside
research log
How an interview left me feeling deeply uncomfortable, and what this told me that the interviewee might not have
2019-11-11
Ben Jarman

Interviews as transactions

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changing inside
research log
How agreeing to do an interview became a negotiation, and what this says about the ‘rules of the game’ for prison research
2019-10-31
Ben Jarman

The ‘rules of the game’ in prison research

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changing inside
research log
Reflections on ethical and other dilemmas associated with prison fieldwork
2019-10-28
Ben Jarman

Comparing sentences, comparing offences: part 2

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changing inside
research log
Second of two posts on how lifers (and others) might compare what it means to be sent to prison for different lengths of time
2019-09-11
Ben Jarman

Comparing sentences, comparing offences: part 1

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changing inside
research log
First of two posts on how lifers (and others) might compare what it means to be sent to prison for different lengths of time
2019-09-04
Ben Jarman

Not just a piece of cake

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changing inside
research log
On why hospitality in prison can mean rather more than it does elsewhere, and why a piece of cake isn’t just a piece of cake
2019-08-19
Ben Jarman

New publication: ‘A poor prospect indeed’

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changing inside
news
News item listing a new peer-reviewed publication
2019-04-18
Ben Jarman

Rehabilitation and the aims of prisons (part 3)

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changing inside
reading note
Last in a series of posts on how English prisons realise the aim of rehabilitation
2019-02-09
Ben Jarman

Notes: how lifers adapt to imprisonment (part 2)

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changing inside
reading note
Second of a series of posts prompted by reading on prison adaptation
2019-02-07
Ben Jarman

Notes: how lifers adapt to imprisonment (part 1)

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changing inside
reading note
First of a series of posts prompted by reading on prison adaptation
2019-02-05
Ben Jarman

Rehabilitation and the aims of prisons (part 2)

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changing inside
reading note
Second in a series of posts on how English prisons realise the aim of rehabilitation
2019-02-04
Ben Jarman

Rehabilitation and the aims of prisons (part 1)

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changing inside
reading note
First in a series of posts on how English prisons realise the aim of rehabilitation
2019-02-02
Ben Jarman

Notes: an agenda for research on long-term imprisonment

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changing inside
reading note
Reading notes on an article proposing a research agenda on long-term imprisonment
2019-01-28
Ben Jarman

Lifers and the right to hope: a new campaign

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changing inside
news
Link to a new campaign by Penal Reform International
2018-12-14
Ben Jarman

Life sentences: the long view

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changing inside
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Link to a new publication by the Prison Reform Trust
2018-12-10
Ben Jarman

Welcome

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changing inside
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Welcome page and description of content on the site
2018-12-04
Ben Jarman
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