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Embodying prison pain : women's experiences of self-injury in prison and the emotions of punishment

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Chamberlen, Anastasia (2016) Embodying prison pain : women's experiences of self-injury in prison and the emotions of punishment. Theoretical Criminology, 20 (2). pp. 205-219. doi:10.1177/1362480615595283

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1362480615595283

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Abstract

This paper explores the meanings and motivations of self-injury practices as disclosed in interviews with a small group of female former prisoners in England. In considering their testimonies through a feminist perspective, I seek to illuminate aspects of their experiences of imprisonment that go beyond the ‘pains of imprisonment’ literature. Specifically, I examine their accounts of self-injury with a focus on the embodied aspects of their experiences. In so doing, I highlight the materiality of the emotional harms of their prison experiences. I suggest that the pains of imprisonment are still very much inscribed on and expressed through the prisoner’s body. This paper advances a more theoretically situated, interdisciplinary critique of punishment drawn from medical-sociological, phenomenological and feminist scholarship.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare
R Medicine > RC Internal medicine
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Women prisoners , Self-mutilation , Women prisoners--Mental care, Women prisoners--Suicidal behavior, Self-injurious behavior, Female offenders--Effect of imprisonment on, Self-destructive behavior
Journal or Publication Title: Theoretical Criminology
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
ISSN: 1362-4806
Official Date: 1 May 2016
Dates:
DateEvent
1 May 2016Published
10 August 2015Available
7 June 2015Accepted
Volume: 20
Number: 2
Page Range: pp. 205-219
DOI: 10.1177/1362480615595283
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Funder: King's College London

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