Life Imprisonment from Young Adulthood: Adaptation, Identity and Time

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 lives within and beyond the prison. Focuss...