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Caged emotions : adaptation, control and solitude in prison / Ben Laws.

9783030960834 (electronic bk.)
3030960838 (electronic bk.)
303096082X
9783030960827

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]

English

1 online resource (xi, 272 pages)

10.1007/978-3-030-96083-4 doi

HV8706

365.019

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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-265) and index.

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Palgrave studies in prisons and penology.

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