RT Article
T1 The depth of imprisonment and the dilution of self
JF Punishment & society
VO 28
IS 1
SP 203
OP 221
A1 Taxhjelm, Frederik Rom
A1 Crewe, Ben
A2 Crewe, Ben
LA English
YR 2026
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1947576011
AB Theoretically, the ‘depth of imprisonment’ refers to the spatial distance between a state of confinement and the surface of the world beyond the prison. Depth thus describes the prison's capacity to cause feelings of alienation from fellow prisoners, the prisoner society and the external community. Using voluntary isolation as a case, we advance the concept by arguing that deep forms of confinement also have the potential to distance prisoners from their own sense of self. Such effects are not reducible to alienation from others, amounting to an internal form of depth experienced as being in a state of free fall. With this, we discuss how depth refers not only to a surface, but also to an imagined endpoint, a floor.
K1 voluntary isolation
K1 Solitary Confinement
K1 Self
K1 Pain
K1 Depth
DO 10.1177/14624745251363610