BSC Hate Crime Research Group Webinar: ‘Black Women in Prison and The Pains of Impression Management’
Wednesday 23 October 2024, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm BST, online (UK)
This presentation will focus on Angela’s PhD research on Black women in prison. The presentation will discuss some of the key findings within the research. Firstly, the presentation will briefly discuss the pains of imprisonment, specifically drawing on the pains of imprisonment for Black women drawing on key examples within her fieldwork. The presentation will then go on to discuss impression management, providing definitions before detailing what impression management looks like specifically for the Black women interviewed within her research. Lastly, the presentation will discuss resilience and coping strategies that were adopted by some of the Black women during the fieldwork. The case study of Mary-Anne will be explored in detail as she was able to draw on a number of methods to make her prison experience more bearable whilst being connected to the present.
Biography:
Dr Angela Charles is a Senior Lecturer in the Criminology department at Northampton University. Angela completed her BA undergraduate degree in History and Criminology at the University of Essex in 2014, graduating with First Class Honours. This was followed by a MSc in Criminology and Criminal Justice at Oxford University in 2015. Angela completed her PhD in 2024 titled Black Women In Prison: Exploring The Intersection Of Race And Gender In Experiences Of Imprisonment. Angela has worked within the criminal justice sector in a Secure Training Centre, the National Probation Service, and Youth Justice. Angela’s research interests are within prisons and penology, and race and gender. Her most recent research explored and analysed the experiences of Black women in English prisons, paying particular attention to the intersections of race, class and gender. Black women are at the margins of society and face multiple intersecting oppressions. The prison is arguably a microcosm of society and perpetuates the same oppressive structural inequalities. It is often these racialised and gendered pains of imprisonment that are rarely discussed or mentioned both within scholarly literature and the public realm more widely.
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