This book focusses on the affective dimensions of prison life. Prisons seethe with all kinds of emotions. Based on two separate empirically rigorous studies, this book analyses how prisoners adapt and control their emotions. It begins with an account of male and female prisons held in medium security prisons and then moves to the particular case of emotions in solitary confinement. There has been a turn towards emotions in criminology and this is the first book to centralize the subject of emotions in the fields of the sociology of imprisonment and prison psychology. The study of feelings has much to contribute to broader debates about survival in prison and pathways to desistence, and it emphasizes that ‘full-blooded’ depictions of prisoners belong at the foreground of academic inquiry. weiterlesen