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Elaborations on the shifts in the landscape of social aid and services for prisoners. Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Bart Claes, Dorien Brosens
On 17 July 2015, the Flemish government approved the first strategic plan for the period 2015-2020 in relation to the social aid and assistance for detainees in prisons in Flanders and Brussels. This plan fol- lows Flemish law of 2013 on the organisation of social aid and services which provides the drafting of such a strategic plan for each legislature. In this article we focus on the historical evolution of the forms of social aid and services ...

Gender and Prison Ethnography. Some Fieldwork Implications Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Bart Claes, Valesca Lippens, Philippe Kennes, Hanne Tournel
Doing ethnographic research in a prison implies that the researcher participates, overtly or covertly, in the people's daily lives for an extended period of time. Ethnographers study people in their natural settings, seeking to document that world in terms of the meanings and behaviour of the people in it. This makes the researcher the primary research instrument, accessing the field, establishing field relations and conducting and structuring ...