In comparative perspective : the effects of incarceration abroad on penal subjectivity among prisoners in Lithuania

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Anglų kalba / English
Title:
In comparative perspective: the effects of incarceration abroad on penal subjectivity among prisoners in Lithuania
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European journal of criminology. 2018, Vol. 15, no. 2, p. 217-234
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ENThis article looks at how global flows of people and policies affect penal subjectivity among prisoners in Lithuania. Those who had previously been incarcerated abroad perceive their punishment in Lithuania’s reforming penal system in comparative terms. We find that international prison experience may either diminish or increase the sense of the severity of the current punishment. Respondents often felt more comfortable in a familiar culture of punishment in Lithuania that emphasizes autonomy and communality. Moreover, internationalized prisoners perceive prison reform emulating West European models as a threat to this culture and are able to articulate comparative critiques of this reform and contest its effects. [From the publication]

DOI:
10.1177/1477370817726716
ISSN:
1477-3708
Subject:
Teisė / Law
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