RT Article
T1 Covid-19 has caused a dramatic change to prison life’: analysing the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the pains of imprisonment in the Scottish Prison Estate
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 62
IS 1
SP 218
OP 233
A1 Maycock, Matthew
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1788015045
AB The purpose of this paper is to provide insights into the impact of COVID-19 in the Scottish Prison Estate. During the 2020 lockdown in prison in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, all face-to-face research was paused. In response to this methodological challenge, a participatory correspondence methodology was designed, enabling project participants to influence the direction of this project through suggesting research questions. The main project findings relate to the analysis of ways in which the COVID-19 enhanced the pains of imprisonment for participants, exploring the challenges that the participants faced in relation to communication, feelings of heightened isolation and detachment from family, friends and the normal rhythms of life in prison. Analysis of the letters received as part of this study provides unique insights into the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic in custody has added an additional layer or enhancement to pre-pandemic pains of imprisonment, increasing the ‘tightness’ ‘depth’ and ‘weight’ of participants time in custody.
K1 COVID-19 in prison
K1 The pains of imprisonment
K1 Everyday life in prison
K1 Institutionalization
K1 Correspondence methodology
K1 Scotland
DO 10.1093/bjc/azab031