Time and Punishment

This book provides a novel exploration of time and temporality in relation to punishment and criminal sanctioning. It goes beyond focussing on the prison to address punishment more broadly with contributions on punishment in the community (including after periods of imprisonment) and in areas of the criminal justice system which have typically received less attention such as prison transportation between prisons. The collection also includes a focus on temporality in criminal justice policy, and its potential impacts on speeding up justice, as well as the experiential nature of punishment. The book includes contributions from scholars in UK and Europe, with largely original research, and draws on the international literature. It hopes to encourage punishment scholars to consider how ideas from the sociology of time can inform their own research.

Chapter 1: Time and punishment: an introduction.- Chapter 2: Time, civilisation and ultimate penalities.- Chapter 3: Time and solitary confinement.- Chapter 4: Unmarking prison time during the covid-19 pandemic.- Chapter 5: Time in motion: transport between prisons as planned, lived and experienced time.- Chapter 6: The ‘reintegration paradox’: working towards the future while standing still.- Chapter 7: Time after time: imprisonment, re-entry and enduring temporariness.- Chapter 8: Probation work in the juridical field: a dance to the music of time.- Chapter 9: Criminal court time and social work time: pre-sentence reports and the chronotope of adjourned supervision.