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

This 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 m...

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Autores principales: Slade, Gavin, Vaičiūnienė, Rūta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5843021/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29568238
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1477370817726716
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description This 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.
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spelling pubmed-58430212018-03-20 In comparative perspective: The effects of incarceration abroad on penal subjectivity among prisoners in Lithuania Slade, Gavin Vaičiūnienė, Rūta Eur J Criminol Articles This 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. SAGE Publications 2017-09-13 2018-03 /pmc/articles/PMC5843021/ /pubmed/29568238 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1477370817726716 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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