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The deprivation of certitude, legitimacy and hope

Foreign national prisoners and the pains of imprisonment

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ID12900023
AuthorsJason Warr (0000-0003-2688-6762, University of Lincoln, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume16
Issue3
Pages301-318
Publication date2016-06-29
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCriminology & Criminal Justice (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1748-8958 • E-ISSN: 1748-8966
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1748895815603775
OpenAlexW2463039315
LanguageEN
Citations received40
References cited44

At the end of March 2015 there were 10,481 foreign nationals (defined as non-UK passport holders) held in prisons in England and Wales, representing 12 per cent of the overall prison population. The latest published figures from December 2014 also indicated that there were a further 394 immigration detainees also being held in various prisons, rather than Immigration Removal Centres, across England and Wales. Although Sykes’s deprivation model with its associated ‘pains of imprisonment’ has been exhaustively explored by penologists, this article argues that there are a new range of ‘pains’ uniquely faced by foreign national prisoners in England and Wales who come under the scrutiny of the Home Office’s Immigration Service. Drawing on quasi-ethnographic fieldwork in a Specialist Foreign National Prison, this article discusses the new pains relating to a lack of certitude, legitimacy and hope with regard to both their carceral and post-carceral lives

Criminology · Foreign national · Immigration · Immigration detention · Imprisonment · Legitimacy · Political science · Politics · Prison · Scrutiny · Sociology · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Sex work and related issues

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Citation span2016 - 2026 (11)
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