.... Abstract This article critically examines the ‘right to hope’ in life imprisonment, introduced in Vinter and Others v UK (2013), through a socio-legal lens. Focusing on older prisoners, a growing demographic facing cognitive decline, physical deterioration, and prolonged incarceration...

...’. The performance of the broken paroled body at the back-end of the criminal justice system is revelatory of the punitiveness of the penal system towards the ageing prison population. parole life imprisonment body death old age release punishment liminality Despite the shift from focussing on the ‘body...

...Veronica L Horowitz; Synøve N Andersen; Jordan M Hyatt Originally introduced by Sykes (1958) , the pains of imprisonment have become one of the most prominent concepts in the study of incarceration ( Haggerty and Bucerius 2020 : 1). Based on ethnographic work in a New Jersey State Prison, Sykes...

...-trial detention, offence type and severity are important factors determining sentencing outcomes although they do not fully explain disparities in these outcomes between ethnic groups. Ethnic disparities in imprisonment persist and, in some cases, become more pronounced after controlling for defendant...

... ‘mature coping’ in custody and the post-release difficulties that life-sentenced prisoners often describe. imprisonment coping emotions institutionalization effects of imprisonment ESRC 10.13039/501100000269 ES/T005459/1 Isaac Newton Trust 10.13039/501100004815 22.07(f) Hudson was 13...

...-White incarceration disparity. In counties with both greater than average Hispanic population share and greater segregation, Hispanic defendants faced even greater incarceration disparities. sentencing segregation Hispanic group threat imprisonment Despite the introduction of structured sentencing...

... dramatically during America’s “prison boom.” Yet, existing research on male imprisonment rates in the United States has focused on explaining overall rates and has not statistically modeled rates disaggregated by race over time. This study uses seemingly unrelated regression techniques to analyze annual rates...

..., these aspects must be looked at together and not in isolation. This article draws on data from in-depth interviews with 17 young people aged 17–25 years old at the time of their interview. All had experienced the imprisonment of a sibling and/or parent and while all were resident in Scotland at the time...

... over the life course. Through this analysis, I reveal the intersecting and accumulating inequalities that are (re)produced by the processes that generate wrongful convictions and by the experience of wrongful imprisonment. In addition to underscoring the need for critical evaluation of the role...

... sites) work in rather disconnected domains, using very different concepts and measures. Another is that, when single-site studies of the subjective experience of imprisonment make comparative claims, often they do so without dedicated comparative data or making the basis of their comparison entirely...

..., the article argues that the anticipation of a particular mode of penal power has a material effect on lifers’ approach to release. long-term imprisonment life sentence licence tightness Economic and Social Research Council 10.13039/501100000269 ES/J007935/1 The life sentence was described over twenty...

... poems are like the ‘móviles delirios’ [mobile ravings] he mentioned in one of them, a phrase that evokes the mind that reacts to the disorder of war and imprisonment and the images generated by it. Surrealism mind subconscious absurd incongruity metaphor image object war imprisonment...

... to their reintegration. stigma management imprisonment prisoner reintegration employment Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research 10.13039/501100003246 451-17-020 Universiteit Leiden 10.13039/501100001717 Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement Utrecht...

... of imprisonment. While there is a small amount of research on the impact of cell-sharing on personal wellbeing and prison quality, much less has been written about the daily dynamics and significance of negotiating shared space under conditions of coercion. In this paper, based on in-depth research undertaken...

... and escapist fantasies from deeper hopes grounded in despair, highlighting hope as a site for further research. hope life sentence long-term imprisonment prison sociology Bringing the canon of literature on life and long-term sentencing into conversation with foundational perspectives on hope from other...

... as a uniformed service, two of which are privately run. According to the latest Scottish Prison Service (SPS) figures, the prison population in 2017–18 was 7,464, which equates to 135 per 100,000, the second highest imprisonment rate in western Europe (only just behind England and Wales). Penal policy...

... invoked here is a situated reasonable person who must make choices and respond to his punishment against the backdrop of a particular life story and set of experiences. ⁷ The hope standard insists that hope is relevant not only in the context of life imprisonment without parole, which both...

...Shane Bell; Michelle Butler; Cheryl Lawther desistance subcultures reintegration neighbourhoods imprisonment Over the last 20 years, academics and penal practitioners have increasingly devoted time and effort to understanding desistance ( Weaver 2015 ; Maruna 2017 ). This interest has...

... sufficient conditions for political imprisonment. They are not necessary because politically motivated governments might arrest individuals for purely nonpolitical acts. For instance, the homosexual Tunisian “Marwan” has been imprisoned in Tunisia in 2015 for committing the putative “crime of sodomy...

..., trialled, or implemented. In 1996, Canada created the first and, to date, most ambitious home confinement sanction, the Conditional Sentence of Imprisonment (CSI). This study tracks annual changes to correctional admissions since the introduction of the sanction to assess whether it has reduced custodial...