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Marguerite Schinkel
Researcher at University of Glasgow
Publications - 24
Citations - 464
Marguerite Schinkel is an academic researcher from University of Glasgow. The author has contributed to research in topics: Prison & Imprisonment. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 23 publications receiving 361 citations. Previous affiliations of Marguerite Schinkel include University of Edinburgh.
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The pains of desistance
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report on two qualitative studies exploring the desistance journeys of two different groups of ex-offenders, drawing attention to the pains of this process, and examine the possible consequences of these "pains of desistance" and how they are linked to three spheres of Desistance: act-desistance, identity desistance, and relational desistance.
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Being Imprisoned: Punishment, Adaptation and Desistance
TL;DR: Schinkel as discussed by the authors examined the narratives of long-term prisoners with a special focus on the meaning they ascribe to their sentence, its impact on their lives and how it affects their inclination to offend in the future.
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Punishment as moral communication: The experiences of long-term prisoners
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine for the first time to what extent the lived experience of long-term prisoners matches the normative theory of criminal punishment as moral communication and find that men tend to accept their sentence in order to make bearing their incarceration easier.
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Prisons and desistance
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine two attempts to apply desistance theory and research in redesigning the prison systems in Northern Ireland and in Scotland, and discuss the challenges and contradictions that remain for desistance research and for prison reform.