RT Article
T1 Top bunk, bottom bunk: cellsharing in prisons
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 62
IS 2
SP 484
OP 500
A1 Schliehe, Anna K.
A2 Crewe, Ben
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1794630015
AB The politics involved in cell-sharing reach into the most personal parts of prisoners’ lives and are highly determinate of their experiences of imprisonment. While there is a small amount of research on the impact of cell-sharing on personal wellbeing and prison quality, much less has been written about the daily dynamics and significance of negotiating shared space under conditions of coercion. In this paper, based on in-depth research undertaken in England & Wales, we explore the experience of cell-sharing and how dynamics in the cell matter both intimately and socially. Essentially, we locate the cell as one of the primary sites of ‘where the action is’ in prisons, and where matters of safety, dignity and abjection are of particular relevance.
K1 Prison
K1 Cell
K1 Cellmates
K1 Pains of imprisonment
K1 England
K1 Wales
DO 10.1093/bjc/azab053