Radical hope and processes of becoming: Examining short-term prisoners’ imagined futures in England & Wales and Norway

Prisoners’ hopes for a life without suffering—without causing and experiencing harm—are embedded in practices of ethical becoming and ideas of transcendence. These hopes are somehow both more banal and complex than the literature on hope generally suggests; they emerge because of lack and are signs...

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Main Author: Laursen, Julie (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2023
In: Theoretical criminology
Year: 2023, Volume: 27, Issue: 1, Pages: 48-65
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Keywords:
Comparative penology
Hope
Imprisonment
everyday ethics
ground projects
post-release

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