Overview
- Sheds light on contemporary prison life and provides new knowledge about current practices
- Focusses on emotions and emotion work in prison settings
- Examines the emotional experiences of both male and female prisoners, as part of the broader prison experience
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology (PSIPP)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Emotions and Imprisonment
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Front Matter
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Part II
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Caged Emotions
Book Subtitle: Adaptation, Control and Solitude in Prison
Authors: Ben Laws
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96083-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-96082-7Published: 05 May 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-96085-8Published: 06 May 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-96083-4Published: 04 May 2022
Series ISSN: 2753-0604
Series E-ISSN: 2753-0612
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 272
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Prison and Punishment, Emotion, Criminal Behavior, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general