Being Imprisoned: Punishment, Adaptation and Desistance

By Marguerite Schinkel

Book Overview

Exploring the way in which criminal punishment is interpreted and narrated by offenders, this book examines the meaning offenders ascribe to their sentence and the consequences of this for future desistance.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349494607
• ISBN13: 9781349494606
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"