The Pains of Hope: Families of Indeterminate Sentenced Prisoners and Political Campaigning by Lay Citizens

This paper examines the politics of crime and insecurity as experienced ‘from below’. We draw on in-depth interviews with families of indeterminate-sentenced prisoners, and policy participants, in order to understand families’ experiences of their relative’s imprisonment under the discredited Englis...

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Main Author: Annison, Harry (Author)
Contributors: Condry, Rachel
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2022
In: The British journal of criminology
Year: 2022, Volume: 62, Issue: 5, Pages: 1252-1269
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