RT Article
T1 Terminal Liminality, Life Imprisonment and the Paroled Body
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 65
IS 5
SP 960
OP 976
A1 Vannier, Marion
A1 Dagan, Netanel
A2 Dagan, Netanel
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1938871960
AB Based on an in-depth analysis of parole board hearings in Israel concerning life sentence prisoners who are old or severely ill, we argue that, rather than opening a window onto new beginnings, parole hearings place applicants in a state of terminal liminality that marks a transition from life into death. We uncover how terminal liminality entails constructing a broken paroled body before the parole board, where matters of life and death are performed, detailed, and contextualized. We further lay out a taxonomy to discuss applicants’ negotiation of terminal liminality through fatalism, resilience, resistance and hope, uncovering how they navigate penal and biological ‘clocks’. The performance of the broken paroled body at the back-end of the criminal justice system is revelatory of the punitiveness of the penal system towards the ageing prison population.
K1 Parole
K1 Life Imprisonment
K1 Body
K1 Death
K1 Old Age
K1 Release
K1 Punishment
K1 Liminality
DO 10.1093/bjc/azae082