EAN: 9783031125928

PALGRAVE STUDIES IN PRISONS AND PENOLOGY DOIN...

This open access book provides insights into the everyday lives of long-term prisoners in
Switzerland who are labelled as 'dangerous' and are preventatively held in indefinite  probably
lifelong  incarceration. It explores prisoners' manifold ways of inhabiting the prison which
can be used to challenge well established notions about the experience of imprisonment  such as
'adaptation'  'coping'  and 'resistance'. Drawing on ethnographic data generated in two
high-security prisons housing male offenders  this book explores how the various spaces of the
prison affect prisoners' sense of self and experience of time  and how  in particular  the
indeterminate nature of their imprisonment affects their perceptions of place and space. It
sheds light on prisoners' subjective  emplaced and embodied perceptions of the prisons' various
everyday time-spaces in the cell  at work  and during leisure time  and the forms of agency
they express. It provides insight into prisoners' everyday habits  practices  routines  and
rhythms as well as the profoundly existential issues that are engendered  (re)arranged  and
anchored in these everyday contexts. It also offers insights into the penal policies  norms 
and practices developed and followed by prison authorities and staff.

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