Doing Indefinite Time : An Ethnography of Long-Term Imprisonment in Switzerland

Doing Indefinite Time An Ethnography of Long-Term Imprisonment in Switzerland

This open access book provides insights into the everyday lives of long-term prisoners in Switzerland who are labelled as ‘dangerous’ and are preventatively held in indefinite, probably lifelong, incarceration. It explores prisoners’ manifold ways of inhabiting the prison which can be used to challe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marti, Irene. author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cham Springer Nature 2023
Cham : 2023.
Edition:1st ed. 2023.
Series:Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology,
Subjects:
Corrections.
Punishment.
Human rights.
Crime—Sociological aspects.
Human geography.
Cultural geography.
Social justice.
Forensic psychology.
Prison and Punishment.
Human Rights.
Crime and Society.
Social and Cultural Geography.
Social Justice.
Forensic Psychology.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009684826606719
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Indefinite confinement in Switzerland
  • 3. Space, time, embodiment
  • 4. Institutional context, key actors, sentenced prisoners
  • 5. In the prison cell
  • 6. At work
  • 7. During leisure time
  • 8. Conclusion.

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