Heavy–light, absent–present: rethinking the ‘weight’ of imprisonment
Since King and McDermott (1995), following Downes (1988), defined the psychological oppressiveness of incarceration in terms of ‘weight’, little has been written about the ‘weight of imprisonment’. None the less, it is generally assumed that prisons that are ‘light’ are preferable to those that are...
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2014
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The British journal of sociology
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