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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
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 | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare R Medicine > RC Internal medicine |
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| 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 | ||||||||
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| 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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