(In)justice in prison – a biographical perspective (original) (raw)

Experiencing Imprisonment

Abstract

In recent years, the quality of prisoner-staff-relationships has received increased attention in the field of penological research. This research indicates that the use of procedural justice in day-to-day interaction is a particularly important aspect of the imprisonment experience. However, existing research has only focussed on the experience of current imprisonment and has not taken the individual biographies of the prisoners into account which may influence the frame of reference from which a fair and decent treatment by prison staff is evaluated. Based on in-depth, semi-structured interviews with juvenile prisoners, the chapter provides an account of fairness issues in prisons, which locates the prisoners’ narratives in their biographical contexts and which sheds light on the internal contradictions and complications, the slips, and discrepancies of perceptions of injustice which are not addressed in the research literature.

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