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Life Imprisonment from Young Adulthood: Adaptation, Identity and Time

Life Imprisonment from Young Adulthood: Adaptation, Identity and Time

Crewe, Ben
Hulley, Susie
Wright, Serena

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology

CriminologyGeneral Psychology

Publisher Price: $139.99

ISBN10: 1137566000
ISBN13: 9781137566003
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Jan 24 2020
Pages: 340
Weight: 1.29
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
This book analyses the experiences of prisoners in England & Wales sentenced when relatively young to very long life sentences (with minimum terms of fifteen years or more). Based on a major study, including almost 150 interviews with men and women at various sentence stages and over 300 surveys, it explores the ways in which long-term prisoners respond to their convictions, adapt to the various challenges that they encounter and re-construct their lives within and beyond the prison. Focussing on such matters as personal identity, relationships with family and friends, and the management of time, the book argues that long-term imprisonment entails a profound confrontation with the self. It provides detailed insight into how such prisoners deal with the everyday burdens of their situation, feelings of injustice, anger and shame, and the need to find some sense of hope, control and meaning in their lives. In doing so, it exposes the nature and consequences of the life-changing termsof imprisonment that have become increasingly common in recent years.

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