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dc.contributor.authorMarti, Irene
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-14T10:39:03Z
dc.date.available2022-10-14T10:39:03Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifierONIX_20221014_9783031125904_3
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58611
dc.description.abstractThis 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPalgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKV Crime and criminology::JKVP Penology and punishmenten_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPV Political control and freedoms::JPVH Human rights, civil rightsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKV Crime and criminologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geographyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and governmenten_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology::JMK Criminal or forensic psychologyen_US
dc.subject.otherCarceral Geography
dc.subject.otherprison
dc.subject.otherincarceration
dc.subject.otherlife sentence
dc.subject.otherimprisonment
dc.subject.otherrehabilitation
dc.subject.otherethnography
dc.subject.otherforensic psychology
dc.subject.otherprison cell
dc.subject.otherprison sociology
dc.titleDoing Indefinite Time
dc.title.alternativeAn Ethnography of Long-Term Imprisonment in Switzerland
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1007/978-3-031-12590-4
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5
oapen.relation.isFundedBy07f61e34-5b96-49f0-9860-c87dd8228f26
oapen.relation.isbn9783031125904
oapen.collectionSwiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
oapen.imprintPalgrave Macmillan
oapen.pages353
oapen.place.publicationCham
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