Short Time, Hard Time: Accounts of Short-Term Imprisonment

Authors

James A. Holstein, Marquette UniversityFollow
Richard S. Jones, Marquette UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Language

eng

Publication Date

1992

Publisher

Emerald (JAI Press)

Source Publication

Perspectives on Social Problems

Source ISSN

1047-0905

Abstract

This paper presents inmates descriptions of prison experience and offers alternate ways of analyzing these accounts. The study focuses on short-term male inmates in a maximum security prison. The authors discuss a variety of ways in which these inmates portray their incarceration and note that short-term inmates ironically suggest that the pains of short-term imprisonment are especially prevalent, acute, and persistent. The alternate analyses offer different perspectives on how to construe these depictions of short-term as "hard time."

Comments

Journal on Social Problems, Vol. 3 (1992): 289-309. Publisher link.

Recommended Citation

Holstein, James A. and Jones, Richard S., "Short Time, Hard Time: Accounts of Short-Term Imprisonment" (1992). Social and Cultural Sciences Faculty Research and Publications. 194.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/socs_fac/194