Imprisonment Theory is a theoretical framework within punishment theory that specifies the principles, justifications, and mechanisms by which state-imposed incarceration is used as a form of penal sanction to achieve deterrence, retribution, rehabilitation, or societal protection.
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Depth, weight, tightness: Revisiting the pains of imprisonment
Ben Crewe · Punishment & Society · 2011 · 743 citations
Social Sciences, Criminology, Crime +13
STATE PRISON POPULATIONS AND THEIR GROWTH, 1971–1991*
David F. Greenberg, Valerie West · Criminology · 2001 · 265 citations
Incapacitation: penal confinement and the restraint of crime
Choice Reviews Online · 1995 · 247 citations
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University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom
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1.5K citations
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
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7 publications
362 citations
London School of Economics and Political Science
London, United Kingdom
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4 publications
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Institute of Criminology
Ljubljana, Slovenia
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5 publications
604 citations
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, United States
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National Bureau of Economic Research
Cambridge, United States
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Keele University
Newcastle-under-Lyme, United Kingdom
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Birkbeck, University of London
London, United Kingdom
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- The British Journal of Criminology
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- Punishment & Society
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- Choice Reviews Online
CRO · 6 publications · 488 citations
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- Social Problems
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