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Criminal punishment represents the state’s most serious intrusion upon the human rights of its citizens. However, beyond (ex-)offender autobiographies, there is remarkably little in-depth empirical evidence about how those who are punished interpret their sentence. This book starts to address this gap in our knowledge — based on narrative interviews with 27 (ex-)prisoners in Scotland, it explores how these men saw their sentence, its impact and their future.
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© 2014 Marguerite Schinkel
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Schinkel, M. (2014). Introduction. In: Being Imprisoned. Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137440839_1
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