Depth, weight, tightness: Revisiting the pains of imprisonment
Depth, weight, tightness: Revisiting the pains of imprisonment
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DOI:
10.1177/1462474511422172
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发表时间:
2011-12-01
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2.4
通讯作者:
Crewe, Ben
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作者:
Crewe, Ben
The 'pains of imprisonment' have been a longstanding concern within prison sociology. This article revisits the topic, suggesting that modern penal practices have created some new burdens and frustrations that differ from other pains in their causes, nature and effects. It notes that the pains of imprisonment can be divided up conceptually, and to some degree historically, into those deriving from the inherent features of incarceration, those resulting from deliberate abuses and derelictions of duty, and those that are consequences of systemic policies and institutional practices. Having described the latter in detail - focusing on the pains of indeterminacy, the pains of psychological assessment and the pains of self-government, the article explains the relevance of the concept of 'tightness', as well as 'depth' and 'weight', to the contemporary prison experience.