RT Article
T1 Between Remand and Verdict: Ethnic Minority Prisoners’ Legal and Penal Consciousness
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 62
IS 4
SP 965
OP 981
A1 Johansen, Louise Victoria
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1808695445
AB This article combines the analytical perspectives ‘legal’ and ‘penal’ consciousness in order to analyse how ethnic minority prisoners in remand anticipate their upcoming court trial and how they subsequently make sense of the legal process and their sentence. Based on fieldwork in a Danish remand prison and courts, the study explores how prisoners’ experiences in prison and more broadly in society shape these expectations. Prisoners reflect critically on majority perceptions of immigration and social deprivation while simultaneously embracing these cultural schemas of difference by trying not to act and speak as ‘immigrants’ or ‘gang members’ in court. The article thus contributes to our understanding of how remand prisoners engage with law, combining notions of its neutrality with internalized notions of ‘important differences’.
K1 Legal consciousness
K1 Sentencing
K1 Remand prisoners
K1 Ethnicity
K1 Courts
DO 10.1093/bjc/azab094