Short time, hard time: accounts of short-term imprisonment

This paper presents inmates' description of their prison experience and offers alternate ways of analyzing these accounts. The study focuses on short-term male inmates in a maximum security prison. The authors discuss a variety of ways in which these inmates portray their incarcerations and not...

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Main Author: Holstein, James A. (Author)
Contributors: Jones, Richard S.
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 1992
In:Enthalten in: Holstein, James A. 3(1992), Seite 289-309
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Summary:This paper presents inmates' description of their prison experience and offers alternate ways of analyzing these accounts. The study focuses on short-term male inmates in a maximum security prison. The authors discuss a variety of ways in which these inmates portray their incarcerations and note that short time inmates ironically suggest that the pains of short-term imprisonment are especially prevalent, acute, and persistent. The alternate analyses offer different perspectives on how to construe these depictions of short time as "hard time."
Item Description:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 309