![]() ![]() It describes a thriving co-presence of bewildering realities where prisoners’ adaptation is defined by a straining uncertainty, ambiguity and ambivalence, and where moral divides are united in the Modus Vivendi of everyday life. ![]() It explores prisoners’ experiences of and adaption to institutional life focusing on implementation of security and order and the motivational and supportive work. This paper complements Pratt’s comparative historical work by scrutinizing the realities of people living and working inside one Scandinavian penal regime. Moral Complexity Institutional Logic Adaptation Ambiguity Ambivalence Prison LifeĪBSTRACT: In a recent article on Scandinavian Exceptionalism, John Pratt urges that in era defined by a pre-occupation with penal excess, we need to explore what we can learn from the Scandinavian regimes characterized by low levels of imprisonment and exceptional prison conditions. To Be and Not to Be: Adaptation, Ambivalence and Ambiguity in a Danish Prison ![]()
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