RT Article
T1 Depth in simultaneous familial imprisonment
JF Punishment & society
VO 27
IS 5
SP 879
OP 899
A1 Fischer, Ariadne
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1940619165
AB This paper draws on qualitative interviews with men and women who were incarcerated simultaneously with family members, some in close proximity, sharing a cell, and others in separate institutions with limited contact opportunities. Through the symbolic framework of ‘depth’ – used to denote the distance and isolation from the outside world – this paper explores how the presence or absence of family within and across prison walls shapes individual experiences of imprisonment. Moreover, it explores how familial relationships are impacted by, maintained, or transformed within the prison estate. This paper suggests that to understand the depth of imprisonment, one must ask not merely what or whom people are separated from when taken out of the community but also whom or what they reunite with when incarcerated.
K1 prisoners’ families
K1 Pains of imprisonment
K1 texture of imprisonment
K1 Depth
K1 simultaneous familial imprisonment
DO 10.1177/14624745251330055