Innocence as burden and resource: Adaptation and resistance during wrongful imprisonment

Drawing on theoretical scholarship on adaptation and resistance in prisons, I explore the significance and function of innocence—and the acute sense of non-belonging it triggers in the prison setting—in wrongfully-convicted men's responses to imprisonment. Using in-depth interviews with 15 exon...

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Main Author: Umamaheswar, Janani (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2023
In: Theoretical criminology
Year: 2023, Volume: 27, Issue: 3, Pages: 499-516
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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