Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Jefferson, Andrew M.

Titel

Traversing sites of confinement: Post-prison survival in Sierra Leone

Ist Teil von

• Theoretical criminology, 2010-11, Vol.14 (4), p.387-406

Ort / Verlag

London, England: SAGE Publications

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In February 2006 a group of over 50 former fighters were released from Freetown’s central prison after over six years’ incarceration. This article traces the ways they handled the move from one form of confinement to another and shows how everyday life for former combatant, ex-prisoners is fashioned according to contingent, unpredictable features of the post-war, post-prison landscape. These are mediated through worldviews that developed prior to confinement as well as in response to their particular personal and collective histories of violent conflict, imprisonment and ongoing feelings of dislocation and ontological insecurity. The article contributes to the broadening out of studies of imprisonment effects, focusing on experiences of re-entry while highlighting the importance of pre-prison experience. Based on data from a quite different context (post-conflict Sierra Leone, West Africa) and of a different form (ethnographic rather than interview/survey) the article lends support to the perspective advocated by Jamieson and Grounds that a new paradigm is necessary for thinking about the effects of imprisonment.