Based on a large, comparative study of prisoner experiences in England & Wales and Norway, this article explores the concept of the ‘depth of imprisonment’ – put most simply, the degree of control, isolation and difference from the outside world – in two stages. First, it sets out the various factors that contribute to ‘depth’ i.e. its core components. Second, it outlines the most frequent metaphors used to communicate depth, highlighting the ways in which these metaphors bring into focus a range of ways in which the basic fact of imprisonment – the deprivation of liberty, and the removal of the individual from the community – is experienced. In doing so, the article also makes a case for the adoption of conceptual metaphors as a means...
In England and Wales, ‘punishment’ is a central element of criminal justice. What punishment entails...
This article compares materials drawn from fieldwork in a Portuguese women's prison in different dec...
The central claim of this article is that microsociological accounts of prison life should not be d...
One of the striking characteristics of much ‘big picture’ penal scholarship is that it stops at the ...
Prison scholarship has tended to focus on the pains and frustrations that result from the use and ov...
Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews, this study of a minimum security, "open" prison in N...
This thesis examines the treatment and experiences of foreign national prisoners in England and Wale...
At first glance, contemporary prisons are environments defined by an ‘enforced collective’ (Goffman...
In the second part of his article on Scandinavian exceptionalism, John Pratt identified certain deve...
Imprisonment as an impediment to movement (the disempowering and frustrating loss of autonomy) and a...
This article deconstructs a binary that has arisen between prisons as, on the one hand, ‘total insti...
Lies, distortion and what doesn’t work: Monitoring prison stories in the British media PAUL MASON, C...
This article summarizes some of the negative psychological effects of impris-onment. It examines the...
The prison is a peculiarly abstracted space which inhabits society's collective conscience. Yet with...
The prison is a peculiarly abstracted space which inhabits society's collective conscience. Yet with...
In England and Wales, ‘punishment’ is a central element of criminal justice. What punishment entails...
This article compares materials drawn from fieldwork in a Portuguese women's prison in different dec...
The central claim of this article is that microsociological accounts of prison life should not be d...
One of the striking characteristics of much ‘big picture’ penal scholarship is that it stops at the ...
Prison scholarship has tended to focus on the pains and frustrations that result from the use and ov...
Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews, this study of a minimum security, "open" prison in N...
This thesis examines the treatment and experiences of foreign national prisoners in England and Wale...
At first glance, contemporary prisons are environments defined by an ‘enforced collective’ (Goffman...
In the second part of his article on Scandinavian exceptionalism, John Pratt identified certain deve...
Imprisonment as an impediment to movement (the disempowering and frustrating loss of autonomy) and a...
This article deconstructs a binary that has arisen between prisons as, on the one hand, ‘total insti...
Lies, distortion and what doesn’t work: Monitoring prison stories in the British media PAUL MASON, C...
This article summarizes some of the negative psychological effects of impris-onment. It examines the...
The prison is a peculiarly abstracted space which inhabits society's collective conscience. Yet with...
The prison is a peculiarly abstracted space which inhabits society's collective conscience. Yet with...
In England and Wales, ‘punishment’ is a central element of criminal justice. What punishment entails...
This article compares materials drawn from fieldwork in a Portuguese women's prison in different dec...
The central claim of this article is that microsociological accounts of prison life should not be d...