Life Imprisonment from Young Adulthood: Adaptation, Identity and Time

by Serena Wright, Ben Crewe, Susie Hulley

Book Overview

This book analyses the experiences of prisoners in England & Wales sentenced when relatively young to very long life sentences (with minimum terms of fifteen years or more). Based on a major study, including almost 150 interviews with men and women at various sentence stages and over 300 surveys, it explores the ways in which long-term prisoners respond to their convictions, adapt to the various challenges that they encounter and re-construct their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349849936
• ISBN13: 9781349849932
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"