The Prison as a Space of Non-life
How Does a Typical Prison Sentence Intervene in What Really Matters to People
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8400350 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alice Ievins (0000-0003-1945-3395, Centre for Social Justice, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 931-946 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-13 |
| 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/azad070 |
| OpenAlex | W4389503990 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 36 |
This article argues that imprisonment creates time that does not matter. It is based on longitudinal interviews conducted with 35 men and women sentenced to typical prison sentences in England. It argues that some responded to this situation by trying to treat the institution as a space of temporary removal and then return to their unblemished lives after release. Others tried to use the prison as a space for reinvention, but it was too disconnected from their biographies for this change to endure. The article then calls for a new understanding of the prison as an institution. The prison is a space of non-life, and as such it can only be understood in the context of that which surrounds it
Context (archaeology) · Criminology · Imprisonment · Institution · Life imprisonment · Political science · Prison · Sentence · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Total institution · Computer Science · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · History · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Psychology · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
Moral Luck
Prisoners, Solitude, and Time
Being Imprisoned
The Stains of Imprisonment
Criminology as a Moral Science
A Companion to Moral Anthropology
Why Things Matter to People
Persistent Punishment
Women's survival post-imprisonment
Let me take a vacation in prison before the streets kill me! Rough sleepers’ longing for prison and the reversal of less eligibility in neoliberal carceral continuums
The prison as a reinventive institution
Reconfigurations of penality
Suppression, denial, sublimation
Radical hope and processes of becoming
The Imagination of Desistance
Moral Laboratories
The Social Life of Nothing
Finding Freedom and Rethinking Power
The cell and the corridor
Surviving in the Time Machine
Suspended Identity
Ambivalent Actions
A Sociology of the Unmarked
An essay on time and the phenomenology of imprisonment
| Citations per year | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |