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Record Nr.

UNINA9910568239103321

Autore

Laws Ben

Titolo

Caged Emotions : Adaptation, Control and Solitude in Prison / / by Ben Laws

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022

ISBN

9783030960834

9783030960827

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (277 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology, , 2753-0612

Disciplina

365.6019

365.019

Soggetti

Corrections

Punishment

Emotions

Forensic psychology

Criminal behavior

Critical criminology

Prison and Punishment

Emotion

Forensic  Psychology

Criminal Behavior

Critical Criminology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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. Ben's research has focused on the emotional dimensions of prison life, which was based at the Institute of Criminology's 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.