Will I Have to Be Reborn? Collective Sensemaking of Stigma among White-Collar Inmates

Author:

Arora Navdeep K1,Harvey William S2ORCID,Roulet Thomas J3ORCID

Affiliation:

1. University of Exeter, UK

2. Melbourne Business School, Australia

3. University of Cambridge, UK

Abstract

We have a limited understanding of how individuals anticipate the experience of stigma, make sense of it as a group, and how such sensemaking trickles down to the individual level, especially for white-collar inmates who have experienced a drastic fall from grace. To address these issues, we draw on three waves of semi-structured interviews and focus group data with 70 inmates in a federal prison in the United States over a period of 16 months. Our findings reveal that following collective sensemaking, inmates use varying tactics to either select, borrow, contribute, reinforce, disguise or maintain the status quo, which variably impact on their perceptions of their ability to both reassure others of their soundness of character and adapt their professional identity. Our work contributes to the sociology of stigma and white-collar crime by showing how high-status professionals collectively prepare for stigmatization and implications for their individual responses to stigma.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

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