They Tell Me I’m Dangerous’
Incarcerated Mothers, Scandinavian Prisons and the Ambidextrous Penal–Welfare State
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8403168 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vilde Ystanes (University of Oslo), Thomas Ugelvik (0000-0002-6743-5637, University of Oslo, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 892-910 |
| Publication date | 2020-06-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjc/azz082 |
| OpenAlex | W2996751735 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 49 |
Ambidextrous states can grasp citizens with both the welfare/support-oriented left hand and the punishment/control-oriented right hand. When people go to prison in such contexts, they may simultaneously face punishment and welfare interventions. Based on interviews with six women serving prison sentences in Norway for violence against their own children, this article discusses certain aspects of the prison experience in welfare-state prisons. Their criminal sentences, and the associated stigma and feelings of shame, weighed heavily on these women, but they eventually felt the state’s welfare-oriented left hand was tighter and more punitive than the right hand. This article describes their experiences and strategies in coping with the challenges they faced as prisoners in an ambidextrous state
Criminology · Feeling · Political science · Prison · Punishment (psychology) · Punitive damages · Shame · State (computer science) · Welfare · Child Abuse and Trauma · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Introduction
Being a Woman in Mixed-Gender Prisons
The Prisoners' Dilemma
Riding the Bus
Corporal Punishment of Children in Nine Countries as a Function of Child Gender and Parent Gender
The Prisoner SocietyPower, Adaptation and Social Life in an English Prison
Disrupted Childhoods
The Incarceration of Women
Analysing Women's Imprisonment
Punishing the Poor
Engendering Resistance
Gender and Prison Organisation
Gender Theory and Prison Sociology
Narrating Mother Identities From Prison
The hidden food
Paternal pains of imprisonment
Depth, weight, tightness
Always gotta be two mans’
Child protection and welfare
Child protection systems within the Danish, Finnish and Norwegian welfare states—time for a child centric approach
Zombie neoliberalism and the ambidextrous state
Resistance or friction
Nordic Exceptionalism revisited
Synergies and tensions in child protection and parent support
Risk assessment and domestic violence – how do child welfare workers in three countries assess and substantiate the risk level of a 5‐year‐old girl
Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in the UK
Managing Motherhood in Prison
The Society of Captives
Scandinavian Exceptionalism in an Era of Penal Excess
Velferdsambisiøsitet – sivilisering og normalisering
Anthropology and Ethics
Techniques of Neutralization
Anti-vaccination movements and their interpretations
Surviving in the Time Machine
Acts of Resistance
Asylums
Autoethnography and Emotion as Intellectual Resources
Gendered Organizational Logic
Mothering From Prison and Ideologies of Intensive Parenting
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |