RT Article
T1 “Disincarcerating incarcerated emotions”: The influence of emotional dynamics behind and beyond bars on desistance from crime
JF Criminology & criminal justice
VO 24
IS 3
SP 550
OP 567
A1 Stoll, Aurélie
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1895379849
AB This article is based on 50 interviews and six written testimonies of 24 individuals convicted, incarcerated, and then released from penitentiaries in Switzerland. Focusing on emotional mechanisms inside and outside prison in a longitudinal perspective, this study explores their influence on desistance pathways. The incarceration experience shapes affective mechanisms, which are identified as delimited, dissimulated, and discredited. Upon release, it turns out that shifting from dynamics of emotional closure to dynamics of emotional (re)opening is critical in light of structural, relational, and emotional barriers to change.
K1 Prison
K1 Longitudinal
K1 Incarceration
K1 emotional dynamics
K1 Desistance
DO 10.1177/17488958221133460