Surviving in the Time Machine: Suicidal Prisoners and the Pains of Prison Time

Time & Society

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 211-230

  Medlicott, Diana ^a  

^a BUCKINGHAMSHIRE NEW UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

identity; prisoners; suffering; suicide; time

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033245681     PISSN: 0961463X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0961463X99008002001     Document Type: Article

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