The abolition of capital punishment in Britain was finalised in 1969. In the remaining decades of the 20th century, long prison sentences took over from execution as the justice system’s principal mode of punishment for the most serious offences. Sociologies of prison life of course pre-date this development. One of the major changes in prison life, however, since Clemmer’s (1950) analysis of the process of ‘prisonization’ and Sykes’ (1958) study highlighting the ‘pains’ of imprisonment has been the rise in the number of prisoners serving long sentences. In 1979, there were 10 times as many long-sentence prisoners than there were 22 years previously (House of Lords, 1982: 870).

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书评：成年后的终身监禁：适应，身份和时间

英国废除死刑的决定于1969年最终确定。在20世纪剩下的几十年中，长期监禁从执行开始接管了，这是司法制度对最严重罪行的主要惩罚方式。监狱生活的社会学当然早于这种发展。然而，自从克莱姆默（Clemmer（1950）对“监狱化”和塞克斯（Sykes）（1958）研究的分析强调监狱的“痛苦”以来，监狱生活的主要变化之一就是长期服刑的囚犯人数增加了。 。1979年，被判刑的囚犯人数是22年前的10倍（上议院，1982：870）。