Overview
- Appeals to practitioners working in prison and probation services
- Speaks to scholars and students of law, political science and human rights
- Draws on the largest sociological study of long-term imprisonment ever conducted in Europe
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology (PSIPP)
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“The book offers a valuable and important contribution to sociological literature on long-term and life imprisonment. … The book presents honest and authentic accounts to reconsider the challenging implications of the topics explored. It contributes to social, criminological and geographical studies of incarceration and life course literature and will be of great interest to readers across these fields.” (Jayne Price, The British Journal of Criminology, April 21, 2020)
“In all the attention to mass imprisonment in recent years, criminologists have only turned recently to what is clearly one of the most significant and problematic features of it: life sentences with no possibility of release for decades, especially when imposed on the very young. In Life Imprisonment from Young Adulthood, Crewe, Hulley, and Wright go beyond the legal transformations that have accompanied this revolution in punishment in England and Wales, to give us the deepest empirical look at adaptation and survival in long-term imprisonment for over forty years; a generation that has seen the life imprisonment sanction explode across the common law world.” (Professor Jonathan Simon, The University of California, Berkeley, USA)
“Life imprisonment from Young Adulthood is meticulously researched, imaginatively constructed, elegantly written and quietly passionate about the injustices and cruelties surrounding its subject matter. It will undoubtedly quickly become a classic in the canon of sociological studies of the prison” (Professor Yvonne Jewkes, University of Bath, UK)
“Life Imprisonment from Young Adulthood is a masterwork of social science. By probing the outer edges of crime and punishment, Crewe, Hulley and Wright shed a bright light on timeless questions about human nature that are at the heart of our understanding of crime and punishment” (Professor Robert Johnson, American University, USA)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Susie Hulley is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK. She is interested in how young people are affected by the criminal justice system, particularly their experiences of criminalisation and imprisonment. Her recent work focuses on the application of ‘joint enterprise’ by criminal justice practitioners (including lawyers and the police) and the impact of this legal doctrine on young people.
Serena Wright is a researcher and Lecturer in Criminology in the Department of Law and Criminology at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. Her research on prisons and penology has focusedon short-term sentences and post-release ‘frustrated desistance’ among women, and the experience of long-term incarceration among life-sentenced prisoners.. She is particularly interested in the intersection between trauma, addiction, and criminalisation, and between health, gender and criminal justice.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Life Imprisonment from Young Adulthood
Book Subtitle: Adaptation, Identity and Time
Authors: Ben Crewe, Susie Hulley, Serena Wright
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56601-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Limited 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-56600-3Published: 24 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-84993-2Published: 26 February 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-56601-0Published: 20 December 2019
Series ISSN: 2753-0604
Series E-ISSN: 2753-0612
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 340
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Prison and Punishment, Human Rights and Crime , Youth Offending and Juvenile Justice, Forensic Psychology, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Psychosocial Studies