There is a growing urgency and social responsibility regarding the lives and experiences of incarcerated juveniles; the author utilizes a visual ethnographic methodology using participant photography in a prison facility in Louisiana to simultaneously invert the surveillance structure and add “layers of significance” (Pink, 2007) to the narrative process. The results, from the photographs and interviews with six incarcerated juvenile participants, highlight the degree to which a confining subordination dictates the lives of these kids while incarcerated as well as how the systemic, institutionalized oppression influences their understanding of their role as incarcerated juvenile while serving their sentence. The photographic images evoke responses regarding the rare physicality of encounters with security staff, the confining impact of their cells, the conception of juvenile jail and adult jail, and the facility’s surveillance apparatus.
Atkinson, P., & Silverman, D. ( 1997). Kundera’s Immortality: The interview society and the invention of the self. Qualitative Inquiry, 3, 304-325.
2.
Blumenreich, M. ( 2004). Avoiding the pitfalls of "conventional" narrative research: Using poststructural theory to guide the creation of narratives of children with HIV. Qualitative Research, 4(1), 77-90.
3.
Cameron, J., & Gibson, K. ( 2005). Participatory action research in a poststructuralist vein. Geoforum, 36, 315-331.
4.
Clough, P.T. ( 2000). Comments on setting criteria for experimental writing . Qualitative Inquiry, 6, 278-291.
Denzin, N., & Lincoln, Y. ( 2000). Handbook of qualitative research (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
7.
Dimitriadis, G. ( 2008). Studying urban youth culture. New York, NY: Peter Lang.
8.
Downing, R., Sonenstein, F., & Davis, N. ( 2006, November). Love through the eyes of Baltimore youth: Photovoice as a youth empowerment tool. Paper presented at the Public Health and Human Rights APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition, Boston, MA.
9.
Fine, M. ( 2009, March). When objects become subjects: A 25 year journey from laboratory experimentation ethnography to participatory action research with youth. Symposium conducted at William Waters Symposium on Urban Education, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
10.
Foucault, M. ( 1995). Discipline and punish: The birth of prison. (A. Sheridan, Trans.). New York, NY: Random House. (Original work published 1973)
11.
Friere, P. ( 2002). Pedagogy of the oppressed. New York, NY: Continuum.
12.
Gahr, E. ( 2001). Judging juveniles. American Enterprise , 12(4), 26-28.
13.
Gannon, S. ( 2006). The (im)possibilities of writing the self-writing: French poststructural theory and autoethnography. Critical Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 6, 474-495.
14.
Geertz, C. ( 1973). The interpretation of cultures: Selected essays. New York, NY: Basic Books.
15.
Giroux, H. ( 2006). Theories of reproduction and resistance in the new sociology of education: Toward a critical theory of schooling and pedagogy for the opposition . In C. G. Robins (Ed.), The Giroux reader (pp. 3-46). Boulder, CO: Paradigm .
16.
Giroux, H. ( 2009). Youth in a suspect society: Democracy or disposability?New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan .
17.
Griffith, D.M., Allen, J.O., Zimmerman, M.A., Morrel-Samuels, S., Rieschl, T.M., Cohen, S.E., & Campbell, K.A. (2008). Organizational empowerment in community mobilization to address youth violence. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 34, 88-99.
18.
Gubrium, J.F., & Holstein, J.A. (2002). From the individual interview to the interview society. In J. F. Gubrium & J. A. Holstein (Eds.), Handbook of interview research: Context and method (pp. 3-32). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
19.
Harper, D. ( 2002). Talking about pictures: A case for photo-elicitation . Visual Studies, 17(1), 13-26.
20.
Kincheloe, J. ( 2001). Describing the bricolage: Conceptualizing a new rigor in qualitative research. Qualitative Inquiry,7, 679-692.
21.
Kuhn, A. ( 1995). Family secrets: Acts of memory and imagination. London, UK: Verso.
22.
Mallory, J.L. ( 2007). Mass incarceration, democracy, and inclusion. Socialism and Democracy, 21(1), 97-122.
23.
Mallory, J.L. ( 2009). Prisoner oppression, democratic rises, abolitionist visions: Toward a social and political philosophy of mass incarceration. Dissertation Abstracts International, 70, (1-A).
24.
Munro Hendry, P. ( 2007). The future of narrative. Qualitative Inquiry, 13, 487-498.
25.
Pink, S. ( 2007). Doing visual ethnography: Images, media and representation in research. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
26.
Polkinghorne, D. ( 2007). Validity issues in narrative research. Qualitative Inquiry, 13, 471-486.
Rios, V. ( 2006) The hypercriminalization of Black and Latino youth in the era of mass incarceration. In M. Marable , K. Middlemass, & I. Steinberg (Eds.), Racializing justice, disenfranchising lives: The racism, criminal justice, and law reader (pp. 17-34). New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
29.
Ruhren, K.C. ( 1992). Noah Stalvey: Probation officer has eye for innovative juvenile programs. Corrections Today, 54, 30.
30.
Scott, J. ( 1992). Domination and the arts of resistance: Hidden transcripts . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
31.
Wang, C.C., Morrel-Samuels, S., Hutchison, P.M., Bell, L., & Pestronk, R.M. (2004). Flint: Photovoice. American Journal of Public Health, 94, 911-913.
