Abstract
This chapter explores how a sample of women experienced, and was transformed by, a husband’s or boyfriend’s long-term imprisonment. It draws on theoretical tools provided by research on long-term imprisonment specifically, including emerging work on how long-term prisoners experience the pains of imprisonment over a long sentence. A previous chapter has suggested that some pains of imprisonment may be ‘acute’ for families outside — that is, these pains could persist throughout the sentence. This chapter explores how these acute pains are experienced over a long sentence by partners. As it has already been shown that sociological work on imprisonment provides excellent theoretical tools for examining the experiences of families, research on long-term imprisonment specifically was chosen as it, too, can help one to understand the experiences of partners outside.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Prisons, Punishment and the Family |
Subtitle of host publication | Towards a New Sociology of Punishment? |
Editors | Rachel Condry, Peter Scharff Smith |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Chapter | 16 |
Pages | 244-257 |
Number of pages | 14 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-0198810087 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Oct 2018 |
Keywords
- long-term prisoners’ partners
- long-term imprisonment
- long sentences
- acute pains