Abstract
This chapter explores the configuration of identity, social relations and ethnicity within the confines of a young men’s prison. The site of intense deprivations, referred to by Sykes (1958) as the ‘pains of imprisonment’, prisons gather together many of those people also bearing the pains of structural disenfranchisement and marginalisation which characterise deprived neighbourhoods (Wacquant, 2007).
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Earle, R., Phillips, C. (2009). ‘Con-viviality’ and Beyond: Identity Dynamics in a Young Men’s Prison. In: Wetherell, M. (eds) Identity in the 21st Century. Identity Studies in the Social Sciences. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230245662_7
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