A Verbatim Film-Research Collaboration Seeking To Raise Awareness of Prison Suicide, 2020-2024

This is qualitative data collection of semi-structured interviews conducted between June-July 2023, and online surveys conducted throughout 2022, within a study that examined how the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (seek to) effect change in prisons following prisoner suicides and how verbatim film can help to increase the impact of research findings. The study ran from 2021-2023. Prisoner suicide rates are consistently higher than rates among communities living outside. Between 2012 and 2016, England and Wales’s prison suicide rates more than doubled, hitting record numbers in 2016. Often those most invested in prison safety are those personally impacted, and campaigns by prisoners’ families can have material effects. This project included a collaboration between an academic research team, a bereaved parent and a theatre company, which aimed to raise awareness of prison suicide through verbatim film and communicate key messages to stakeholders across criminal justice.

本数据集为一项于2021-2023年开展的研究所形成的定性数据采集成果，其中包含2023年6至7月进行的半结构化访谈，以及2022年全年实施的线上调查。该研究旨在探究监狱与缓刑监察员办公室（Prisons and Probation Ombudsman）如何在囚犯自杀事件后推动监狱系统变革，以及逐字实录影片（verbatim film）如何助力提升研究成果的传播影响力。囚犯自杀率始终高于普通社区人群：2012至2016年间，英格兰及威尔士地区的监狱自杀率翻倍有余，2016年创下历史新高。通常而言，对监狱安全最为关注的群体是亲身遭受此类悲剧影响的人群，囚犯家属发起的相关运动能够产生切实影响。本项目由学术研究团队、一名失亲家长与一家戏剧剧团合作推进，旨在通过逐字实录影片提升公众对监狱自杀问题的认知，并向刑事司法体系内的各利益相关方传递核心研究信息。