RT Article
T1 The Pains of Imprisonment and Contemporary Prisoner Culture in Canada
JF The prison journal
VO 101
IS 5
SP 528
OP 552
A1 McKendy, Laura
A2 Ricciardelli, Rosemary
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1778198848
AB Drawing on interviews conducted with former federal and provincial prisoners in Ontario, Canada, we consider how the unique social conditions in these two institutional contexts shape interpersonal dynamics and the prisoner experience. Despite notable differences in federal versus provincial prisoner culture, we suggest that prisoners in both contexts lived in environments marked by uncertainties and risk; in response, they tended to adapt to a highly individualistic orientation toward doing time. Based on our analysis, we complicate the conceptualization of prisoner culture as primarily serving an adaptive function, suggesting the prison social climate may actually drive the most salient pains of imprisonment.
K1 Carceral habitus
K1 Comparative prison research
K1 Prisoner experiences
K1 Pains of imprisonment
K1 Prison culture
DO 10.1177/00328855211048166