This paper considers the pains of life-sentence imprisonment through the novel vantage
point of old age understood as a process. Our prison populations are getting older and the …

Prison populations across the world are increasing. In the United Kingdom, numbers have
doubled in the last two decades, and older prisoners now constitute the fastest growing …

This chapter focuses on the pains of imprisonment beyond the focal point of the prison, and
explores how these pains may be generated before entrance to the institution, as well as …

Why should anyone be interested in the experiences of those who are spending the latter, or
last stages of their lives in prison? As a prison scholar with a long-standing scientific interest …

This chapter draws upon ongoing research examining the needs and experiences of women
and men who are over 50 and in prison, on both sides of Atlantic. The chapter will landscape …

In British criminological texts on imprisonment, the terms 'elderly'and 'prisoner'appear
together relatively rarely. This is because, until very recently, prison research focused largely …

After agreeing to contribute a chapter on older offenders and community penalties for this
collection I began to consider what the chapter might include and what the main focus of the …

Over the last 20 years many countries have experienced rising numbers of older prisoners,
including older women. This has prompted a rapid expansion in research from a range of …

The numbers of elderly men in the prisons of England and Wales has grown significantly
over the past decade, and they continue to rise. Based on intensive fieldwork in four English …

There is growing interest in ageing offenders and their lives in prison. However, this subject
is often studied from a deprivation perspective, focusing on issues such as lack of medical …