Beskrivelse
John’s PhD project is a qualitative, multi-level study of political discourse, reintegration and resettlement practice, and lived experience. By ‘zooming in’ from political discourse through practice to desister experience, he aimed to increase knowledge of the context in which desistance takes place as well as the lived experience of the desistance process itself.This presentation will focus, in particular, on so-called ‘punishment debt’ and the lived experience of desisting from crime. The imposition and enforcement of significant and long-term debt on those convicted of crime raises important questions about when punishment really ends in Norway. Whilst prison sentences might be somewhat shorter than in other countries, ‘punishment debt’ can be experienced as inescapable and leading to extended liminality. Linked to this, the project provides an account of desistance in Norway as long-term and unfinalised, showing that the collateral damage of trauma, drug addiction and punishment is significant, leading in some cases to an extended experience of marginalisation.
| Periode | 7 dec. 2021 |
|---|---|
| Begivenhedstype | Seminar |
| Grad af anerkendelse | International |