Walsh, A.M. orcid.org/0000-0003-1501-8804 (2025) Review of: Stephen J. Scott-Bottoms. Incarceration Games: A History of Role-Play in Psychology, Prisons, and Performance. Modern Drama, 68 (2). pp. 260-262. ISSN: 0026-7694
Abstract
Stephen Scott-Bottoms’s Incarceration Games is an engaging history of the Stanford Prison Experiment. Deploying a wide range of sources including original interviews, archives, and critical perspectives on role-play in socialpsychology, the book explores human behaviour, institutions, ethics, resistance, consent, and discernment in the context of simulated incarceration.
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| Item Type: | Book review |
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| Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © University of Toronto Press. This is an author produced version of an article published in Modern Drama. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
| Keywords: | Stanford Prison Experiment, simulation, role-play |
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| Institution: | The University of Leeds |
| Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > Performance and Cultural Industries (Leeds) |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Oct 2025 10:19 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Oct 2025 12:10 |
| Status: | Published |
| Publisher: | University of Toronto Press |
| Identification Number: | 10.3138/md-68-2-rev4 |
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| Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:232972 |
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