RT Article
T1 ‘Sedative Coping’, Contextual Maturity and Institutionalization Among Prisoners Serving Life Sentences in England and Wales
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 64
IS 5
SP 1080
OP 1097
A1 Crewe, Ben
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1902446968
AB Based on a longitudinal study of life-sentenced prisoners in England and Wales, this article seeks to make sense of what it characterizes as ‘sedative coping’. In doing so, it brings together analytic conclusions from the existing research literature that appear highly inconsistent, but which indicate the centrality of emotion in the experience of serving a long prison sentence. Specifically, it highlights the forms of emotion management and suppression involved in coping with the trauma of such circumstances, and the post-release impact of sustained forms of emotional self-preservation. This focus helps us better understand the connection between ‘mature coping’ in custody and the post-release difficulties that life-sentenced prisoners often describe.
K1 Imprisonment
K1 Coping
K1 Emotions
K1 Institutionalization
K1 effects of imprisonment
DO 10.1093/bjc/azae001