RT Article
T1 End of life in high-security prisons in Switzerland: overlapping and blurring of “care” and “custody” as institutional logics
JF Journal of correctional health care
VO 23
IS 1
SP 32
OP 42
A1 Marti, Irene
A2 Hostettler, Ueli 1960-
A2 Richter, Marina
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1846253225
AB Similar to other institutions, the Swiss prison system faces a growing number of elderly prisoners, trends toward securitization, and, in consequence, more prisoners who will spend the end-of-life (EOL) period of time in prison. By law, prisoners should have the same access to care as the rest of the population. However, custody makes meeting the demands of medical and palliative care difficult. This article focuses on the organizational challenges related to EOL care. Based on ethnographic and documentary research, it examines the institutional logic of the prison and the competing “new” logic emerging with EOL care. It illustrates the ambivalences within these logics and the blurred distinction between “care” and “custody” and evaluates how prison staff interpret this overlap and the effects in shaping everyday practices.
NO Literaturverzeichnis
K1 Tod
K1 Palliativpflege
K1 Gefängnis
K1 end of life
K1 prison health care
K1 Prison
K1 Institutional logics
DO 10.1177/1078345816684782