The Effects of Imprisonment

ISBN-13: 9781843922179 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 492 str.

Opis

Ponders whether the prison harms its inhabitants, its employees, and others, and redirects the conversation among academics, policy-makers and professionals on the effects of imprisonment. This book examines the social, psychological, behavioural, and emot

Spis treści

Foreword  1. Introduction: the effects of imprisonment revisited  Part 1: The Harms of Imprisonment - Thawing Out The 'Deep Freeze' Paradigm  2. Release and adjustment: perspectives from studies of wrongly convicted and politically motivated prisoners  3. The contextual revolution in psychology and the question of prison effects  4. Harm and the contemporary prison   5. The effects of supermax custody  6. The politics of confi nement: women's imprisonment in California and the UK  Part 2: Revisiting the Society of Captives  7. Codes and conventions: the terms and conditions of contemporary inmate values  8. Revisiting prison suicide: the role of fairness and distress  9. Crossing the boundary: the transition of young adults into prisons  10. Brave new prisons: the growing social isolation of modern penal institutions by Robert Johnson  1.1 'Soldiers', 'sausages' and 'deep sea diving': language, culture and coping in Israeli prisons  12. Forms of violence and regimes in prison: report of research in Belgian prisons  Part 3: Coping Among Ageing Prisoners  13. Older men in prison: survival, coping and identity  14. Loss, liminality and the life sentence: managing identity through a disrupted lifecourse  Part 4: Expanding the Prison Effects Debate Beyond the Prisoner  15. The effects of prison work  16. Imprisonment and the penal body politic: the cancer of disciplinary governance  17. The effects of imprisonment on families and children of prisoners  18. Reinventing prisons