Caged emotions : adaptation, control and solitude in prison / Ben Laws.
Laws, Ben, author.
2022
HV8706
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Title Caged emotions : adaptation, control and solitude in prison / Ben Laws.
Author Laws, Ben, author.
ISBN 9783030960834 (electronic bk.)
3030960838 (electronic bk.)
303096082X
9783030960827
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96083-4
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xi, 272 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-96083-4 doi
Call Number HV8706
Dewey Decimal Classification 365.019
Summary This book focuses on the emotional experience of imprisonment. In no uncertain terms: prisons seethe with emotions and feelings. Based on two empirically rigorous studies, this book analyses how prisoners attempt to adapt and control their emotions. It begins with an account of male and female prisoners held in medium-security prisons and then moves to the particular case of emotions in solitary confinement. There has been a turn towards emotions in criminology but this is the first book to centralize the subject of prisoner emotions in a detailed manner. The ethnographic study of feelings has much to contribute to broader debates about survival in prison and pathways to desistence. Most importantly, it emphasizes that full-blooded depictions of prisoners belong at the heart of academic inquiry. Ben Laws is Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, UK. Bens research has focused on the emotional dimensions of prison life, which was based at the Institute of Criminologys Prisons Research Centre. He has professional experience working in a range of mental health settings across the UK and US, mainly supporting those with autistic spectrum conditions (ASCs) and a range of other complex psychiatric, behavioural and developmental disorders.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-265) and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 12, 2022).
Series Palgrave studies in prisons and penology.
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Introduction
Chapter 1 Emotions before prison
Chapter 2 Implosions: Suppressing, bottling, trapping emotions
Chapter 3 Explosions: anger, rage, and violence
Chapter 4 Havens of calm: joy, peace, serenity
Chapter 5 The Case for Solitude
Chapter 6 When all the options are bad
Chapter 7 Emotions and Prison Sociology.

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