The Palgrave handbook of prison tourism

This extensive handbook addresses a range of contemporary issues related to prison tourism across the world.

It is divided into seven sections: ethics, human rights and penal spectatorship; carceral retasking, curation and commodification of punishment; meanings of prison life and representations of punishment in tourism sites; death and torture in prison museums; colonialism, relics of empire and prison museums; tourism and operational prisons; and visitor consumption and experiences of prison tourism.