ABSTRACT

This chapter situates long-term imprisonment of young men within the wider social context of criminal and social justice, identifying some of the socio-legal constructs and practices that locate responsibility for crime with individuals and communities. These constructs and practices are themselves rooted in historical and political context in which the response to acts of - or even proximity to - violence by young people is long-terms of imprisonment followed sometimes by deportation. Drawing on findings from previous chapters, conclusions are grouped in the following themes.

Biography, habitus and trauma

The experience and resistance of imposed class, racial and legal status and prisonisation

The sociological reimagination of criminology

Impelling the phenomenology of youth imprisonment.