RT Article
T1 More Mind Games: how ‘The Action’ and ‘The Odds’ have Changed in Prison
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 60
IS 6
SP 1648
OP 1666
A1 Liebling, Alison 1963-
A1 Lieber, Elinor
A1 Williams, Ryan
A2 Lieber, Elinor
A2 Williams, Ryan
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1738259013
AB Surviving prison has always involved ‘action’ and game playing. Higher stakes—‘life-trashing sentences’, the fear and risk of radicalization, increased incidences of homicide and labyrinth routes out—have compounded the experience of struggle: to be heard, for dignity, against exposure to violent injustice, and for release; the wrestling of ‘the self’ against a bleak and unyielding bureaucracy. In this article, we revisit McDermott and King’s Mind Games: Where the Action is in Prison showing how long-term prisoners are exposed to unregulated, unfathomable forms of power and action, and how long-term imprisonment feels increasingly like being ‘abandoned by humanity.’
K1 Mind games
K1 Prison
K1 Survival
K1 Action
K1 Power
DO 10.1093/bjc/azaa046