They Tell Me I’m Dangerous’

Incarcerated Mothers, Scandinavian Prisons and the Ambidextrous Penal–Welfare State

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8403168
AutoresVilde Ystanes (University of Oslo), Thomas Ugelvik (0000-0002-6743-5637, University of Oslo, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume60
Fascículo4
Páginas892-910
Data de publicação2020-06-23
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529
EditoraOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/bjc/azz082
OpenAlexW2996751735
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas49

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