Coping With Imprisonment
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| Author | : Edward Zamble |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 217 |
| Release | : 2013-11-11 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1461387574 |
This book is the report of a collaborative effort. Frank Porporino and I arrived at the starting point for our work together by very different routes. Originally trained as an experimental psychologist, I had become in creasingly restive within the confines of the laboratory, and spent a sab batical year in the equivalent of a clinical internship. I then spent some time as a part-time consultant in a local penitentiary. Most of my time in the institution was spent with inmates with a variety of problems, probably about 50 individuals over the course of a year. Although this was far fewer than a full-time psychologist in the system might encounter, it served as a quick cram course on problem prisoners and prisoner problems. Very quickly my stereotypes about convicts were shown to be virtually useless. I learned that the criminal classes included all levels of society, and that the behavior of prisoners was the same as that of other human beings in a difficult environment.
| Author | : Nicolette Parisi |
| Publisher | : SAGE Publications, Incorporated |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 1982-02 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : |
Parisi has compiled a volume of original essays about coping with stress in prison. They cover such topics as the causes of the stress; who suffers most; how prisoners deal with the stress; and how institutions can alleviate it. The book reviews prisoners' strategies for survival -- from withdrawal to aggressive rebellion, organized strikes, and explosive riots -- and how grievance procedures, sentencing and parole policies can either contribute to, or reduce, stress. 'This volume is both easy to read and well organized. The papers selected for inclusion were appropriate. The reader who has a novice interest in this topic will find this volume to be a valued addition. Correctional students, policy makers, and educators will
| Author | : Alison Liebling |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 480 |
| Release | : 2013-06-17 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1134012462 |
As the number of prisoners in the UK, USA and elsewhere continues to rise, so have concerns risen about the damaging short term and long term effects this has on prisoners. This book brings together a group of leading authorities in this field, both academics and practitioners, to address the complex issues this has raised, to assess the implications and results of research in this field, and to suggest ways of mitigating the often devastating personal and psychological consequences of imprisonment.
| Author | : Jeffrey Ian Ross |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 9780028643519 |
Best ways to avoid being beaten, sexually abused, or getting killed; US origin.
| Author | : Committee on Causes and Consequences of High Rates of Incarceration |
| Publisher | : National Academies Press |
| Total Pages | : 800 |
| Release | : 2014-12-31 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 9780309298018 |
After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of imprisonment in the United States has increased fivefold during the last four decades. The U.S. penal population of 2.2 million adults is by far the largest in the world. Just under one-quarter of the world's prisoners are held in American prisons. The U.S. rate of incarceration, with nearly 1 out of every 100 adults in prison or jail, is 5 to 10 times higher than the rates in Western Europe and other democracies. The U.S. prison population is largely drawn from the most disadvantaged part of the nation's population: mostly men under age 40, disproportionately minority, and poorly educated. Prisoners often carry additional deficits of drug and alcohol addictions, mental and physical illnesses, and lack of work preparation or experience. The growth of incarceration in the United States during four decades has prompted numerous critiques and a growing body of scientific knowledge about what prompted the rise and what its consequences have been for the people imprisoned, their families and communities, and for U.S. society. The Growth of Incarceration in the United States examines research and analysis of the dramatic rise of incarceration rates and its affects. This study makes the case that the United States has gone far past the point where the numbers of people in prison can be justified by social benefits and has reached a level where these high rates of incarceration themselves constitute a source of injustice and social harm. The Growth of Incarceration in the United States examines policy changes that created an increasingly punitive political climate and offers specific policy advice in sentencing policy, prison policy, and social policy. The report also identifies important research questions that must be answered to provide a firmer basis for policy. This report is a call for change in the way society views criminals, punishment, and prison. This landmark study assesses the evidence and its implications for public policy to inform an extensive and thoughtful public debate about and reconsideration of policies.
| Author | : Timothy J. Flanagan |
| Publisher | : SAGE |
| Total Pages | : 279 |
| Release | : 1995-04-06 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0803970331 |
A collection of articles first published in The Prison Journal , the official journal of the Pennsylvania Prison Society, supplemented by research reports on the effects of long-term confinement in American and Canadian prisons and essays written by long-term prisoners. Articles examine the experiences of male and female inmates, and discuss the co.
| Author | : Alice Mills |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 393 |
| Release | : 2018-11-19 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 3319940902 |
This book examines how the prison environment, architecture and culture can affect mental health as well as determine both the type and delivery of mental health services. It also discusses how non-medical practices, such as peer support and prison education programs, offer the possibility of transformative practice and support. By drawing on international contributions, it furthermore demonstrates how mental health in prisons is affected by wider socio-economic and cultural factors, and how in recent years neo-liberalism has abandoned, criminalised and contained large numbers of the world’s most marginalised and vulnerable populations. Overall, this collection challenges the dominant narrative of individualism by focusing instead on the relationship between structural inequalities, suffering, survival and punishment. Chapter 2 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com.
| Author | : Nicholas Blagden |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 234 |
| Release | : 2019-03-12 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 3030049302 |
This book focuses on the experience of imprisonment from the perspectives of individuals with sexual convictions. It stresses the importance of a positive and rehabilitative prison climate. The volume begins with an exploration of the theoretical underpinnings of a rehabilitative prison climate and discusses some of the practical ways of creating rehabilitative cultures in prisons housing people convicted of sexual offences. Four empirical chapters focus on the experience of stigmatisation, prison officers’ attitudes towards prisoners’ offences, negotiating the ‘sex offender’ identity in prisons and the varied experience of ‘being’ in prisons exclusively for individuals with sexual convictions. Throughout the authors discuss the specific benefits of peer-support, such as the chance to earn self-forgiveness, construct adaptive identities and consequently move away from harmful labels. The book also spotlights a chapter on the experience of imprisonment written by a former service-user, this unique position offers an insightful account of an individual’s journey through the prison system.
| Author | : Yvonne Jewkes |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 225 |
| Release | : 2013-01-11 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1135987750 |
This book is concerned with the media's role in everyday life, power relations and the construction of masculine identities in the context of prisons. It is based upon unique research into the nature, impact and consequences of a situation where most prisoners in English prisons have access to some media resource, whether radio or television, or with communal or individual access to it. Captive Audience charts for the first time the way in which prisons use media in coping – or failing to cope – with the pressures of prison life, exploring the impact of the media in terms of prisoner identities, shaping power relations between prisoners and other prisoners, and in helping prisoners 'get through' a prison sentence. At the same time this book raises a range of broader issues of theory and practice on the nature of the relationship between prisons, criminal justice systems and society more generally, and on the ways in which the media are conceived in everyday life. It will be of interest to all those concerned with prisons, criminology and the criminal justice system, the social role of the media, and the construction of identity.
| Author | : Ben Crewe |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 354 |
| Release | : 2019-12-20 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1137566019 |
This book analyses the experiences of prisoners in England & Wales sentenced when relatively young to very long life sentences (with minimum terms of fifteen years or more). Based on a major study, including almost 150 interviews with men and women at various sentence stages and over 300 surveys, it explores the ways in which long-term prisoners respond to their convictions, adapt to the various challenges that they encounter and re-construct their lives within and beyond the prison. Focussing on such matters as personal identity, relationships with family and friends, and the management of time, the book argues that long-term imprisonment entails a profound confrontation with the self. It provides detailed insight into how such prisoners deal with the everyday burdens of their situation, feelings of injustice, anger and shame, and the need to find some sense of hope, control and meaning in their lives. In doing so, it exposes the nature and consequences of the life-changing terms of imprisonment that have become increasingly common in recent years.
