VOLUME 34, Number 1 (2025) is a special issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons on "Emotions and the Affective Politics of Incarceration" edited by Jennifer M. Kilty (University of Ottawa), Rachel Fayter (Carleton University) and Justin Piché (University of Ottawa). In addition to articles on the emotions, affect and imprisonment, this edition of the journal includes a call for contributions for the 50th edition of Prisoners’ Justice Day, book reviews, and artwork by Steel Door Studios (https://steeldoorstudios.com).
Grant Tietjen (Editor)
Grant E. Tietjen, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Criminal Justice Program at the School of Social Work and Criminal Justice at the University of Washington – Tacoma (UWT). Dr. Tietjen, formerly Associate Professor and Assistant Program Director for the Masters of Science in Criminal Justice at St. Ambrose University (SAU) in Davenport, Iowa, earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln (UNL) in 2013.
He has written, researched, and lectured on convict criminology, mass incarceration, class inequality, criminological theory, and pathways to correctional/postcorrectional education. He has published in multiple peer reviewed journals, book chapters, and academic encyclopedias; with multiple works in progress. Tietjen’s most recent peer reviewed research has been published in Humanity and Society; Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict & World Order; and Criminal Justice Studies. He is the author of Justice Lessons: The Rise of the System Affect Academic Movement, with the University of California Press, slated for publication in 2024. Dr. Tietjen is also a Co-editor of a special issue of The Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, titled Twenty-Five Years of Convict Criminology.
Alison Cox (Editor)
Dr. Alison Cox pursues research in the areas of Corrections: Prison visitation, Prisoner-family relationship, Impacts of incarceration, Critical Criminology: Convict, Feminist, Rural, and Queer, Women’s and Gender Studies, Victimization, and Qualitative Research Methods.
Her scholarship has been published in Criminal Justice Studies, Critical Criminology, and an upcoming special issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prison celebrating 25 years of convict criminology. She is also a contributing author to Convict Criminology for the Future, edited by Dr. Jeffrey Ian Ross (University of Baltimore) and Dr. Francesca Vianello (University of Padua).
Her teaching Interests include: Criminal Justice Administration and Management, Race, Gender, and Special Populations in the Criminal Justice System.
J. Renee Trombley (Editor)
Dr. Trombley’s research interests include restorative justice, peacemaking criminology, and violence among youth with particular interest focused on exposure to community violence variables. Dr. Trombley is involved in research exploring the potential for utilizing peacemaking practices in both university and college classrooms and the communities they serve as well as several other research projects including topics related to convict criminology, justice impacted students, juvenile justice and education, status and stigma, trauma and harm, and college student’s attitudes on drug policy.
