This chapter examines the prisonisation of community sanctions in Lithuania, focusing on how intensive supervision with electronic monitoring—although officially presented as an alternative to imprisonment—in practice assumes features of incarceration. The analysis employs Sykes’s pains of imprisonment and Goffman’s concept of the total institution as interpretive frameworks for a qualitative study conducted in 2024 with individuals subjected to intensive supervision. The findings show that intensive supervision generates experiences parallel to imprisonment, including the deprivation of autonomy, freedom of movement, goods and services, security, interpersonal relationships, and social status, as well as damaged identity and stigmatisation. The chapter argues that preventing excessive control and mitigating the prisonising effects of community sanctions requires more flexible, individualised, and reintegration-oriented approaches to intensive supervision.

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A Prison Without Bars: Prisonisation of Probation Through Intensive Supervision in Lithuania

  • Simonas Nikartas,
  • Loreta Matačiūtė,
  • Neila Sventickytė

摘要

This chapter examines the prisonisation of community sanctions in Lithuania, focusing on how intensive supervision with electronic monitoring—although officially presented as an alternative to imprisonment—in practice assumes features of incarceration. The analysis employs Sykes’s pains of imprisonment and Goffman’s concept of the total institution as interpretive frameworks for a qualitative study conducted in 2024 with individuals subjected to intensive supervision. The findings show that intensive supervision generates experiences parallel to imprisonment, including the deprivation of autonomy, freedom of movement, goods and services, security, interpersonal relationships, and social status, as well as damaged identity and stigmatisation. The chapter argues that preventing excessive control and mitigating the prisonising effects of community sanctions requires more flexible, individualised, and reintegration-oriented approaches to intensive supervision.