The Palgrave Handbook of Prison Tourism / Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology (PDF)

Jacqueline Z. Wilson is an Associate Professor at Federation University Australia in the Collaborative Research Centre in Australian History. Her research focuses on the intersections between heritage, state care and institutionalization. She is the author of Prison: Cultural Memory and Dark Tourism, the first national study of prison tourist sites in Australia.
 Sarah Hodgkinson is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Criminology, University of Leicester. Her research interests include crime-related dark tourism (in particular prison and Holocaust tourism), Holocaust representation and memorialization, the social construction of evil, forensic mental health, and homicide. Justin Piché is Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa and Co-managing Editor of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons. Justin was awarded the 2012 Aurora Prize from the Social Sciences and Humanities ResearchCouncil of Canada and the 2016 Young Researcher Award from the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ottawa. Kevin Walby is Associate Professor and Chancellor's Research Chair, Department of Criminal Justice, University of Winnipeg, Canada. He is co-editor of National Security, Surveillance, and Terror: Canada and Australia in Comparative Perspective with R. Lippert, I. Warren and D. Palmer (forthcoming with Palgrave in 2017).  

“This collection covers conceptual, empirical, and methodological aspects of a field of study that focuses on ‘prison and jail tourism, penal museums, and other sites of carceral memorialization around the world.’ … In bringing together this array of international scholars and administrators, many of whom have published previously on these topics but too frequently in obscure or difficult-to-locate journals, the editors have surely performed a public, as well as academic, service.” (Russ Immarigeon, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books, clcjbooks.rutgers.edu, July, 2017)