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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Main Author: Crewe, Ben (Author)
Contributors: Liebling, Alison ; Hulley, Susie
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2014
In: The British journal of sociology
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