Caged Emotions : Adaptation, Control and Solitude in Prison / by Ben Laws.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laws, Ben, author.

Series:

Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology, 2753-0612

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corrections.

Punishment.

Emotions.

Forensic psychology.

Criminal behavior.

Critical criminology.

Prison and Punishment.

Emotion.

Forensic Psychology.

Criminal Behavior.

Critical Criminology.

Local Subjects:

Prison and Punishment.

Emotion.

Forensic Psychology.

Criminal Behavior.

Critical Criminology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2022.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.

Summary:

This book focuses on the emotional experience of imprisonment. In no uncertain terms: prisons seethe with emotions and feelings. Based on two empirically rigorous studies, this book analyses how prisoners attempt to adapt and control their emotions. It begins with an account of male and female prisoners held in medium-security prisons and then moves to the particular case of emotions in solitary confinement. There has been a turn towards emotions in criminology but this is the first book to centralize the subject of prisoner emotions in a detailed manner. The ethnographic study of feelings has much to contribute to broader debates about survival in prison and pathways to desistence. Most importantly, it emphasizes that 'full-blooded' depictions of prisoners belong at the heart of academic inquiry. Ben Laws is Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, UK. Ben's research has focused on the emotional dimensions of prison life, which was based at the Institute of Criminology's Prisons Research Centre. He has professional experience working in a range of mental health settings across the UK and US, mainly supporting those with autistic spectrum conditions (ASCs) and a range of other complex psychiatric, behavioural and developmental disorders.

Contents:

Introduction

Chapter 1 - Emotions before prison

Chapter 2 - Implosions: Suppressing, bottling, trapping emotions

Chapter 3 - Explosions: anger, rage, and violence

Chapter 4 - Havens of calm: joy, peace, serenity

Chapter 5 - The Case for Solitude

Chapter 6 - When all the options are bad

Chapter 7 - Emotions and Prison Sociology.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-265) and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Laws, Ben Caged Emotions

ISBN:

9783030960834