RT Article
T1 Only One Way To Swim? The Offence And The Life Course In Accounts Of Adaptation To Life Imprisonment
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 60
IS 6
SP 1460
OP 1479
A1 Jarman, Benjamin T.
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1738220540
AB Recent studies of long-term imprisonment describe a largely invariant pattern of prisoner adaptation. Using data from a qualitative study of men serving life sentences in England, I argue that adaptation may in fact vary more than these studies imply both because of the prisoner’s age when sentenced and because of the circumstances of particular offences. Participants’ engagement with the prison’s rehabilitative ‘offer’ depended on how the sentence affected their life course and what they understood to be the moral ramifications of the offence. These findings refine understanding of adaptation and suggest that a renewed focus on moral reflexivity may bear fruit in future prison research.
K1 Long-term imprisonment
K1 Indefinite imprisonment
K1 Life imprisonment
K1 Re-habilitation
K1 Moral reflection
K1 Murder
DO 10.1093/bjc/azaa036