Full Description
For advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in corrections. This collection brings together some of the best and most relevant research currently available on the prison experience. The inmate prison experience examines issues such as violence, race relations, gender issues, gangs and more, providing a comprehensive examination of the experience of prison inmates and how prison affects them.
Contents
I. INMATE ADJUSTMENT TO PRISON. 1. Thieves, Convicts and the Inmate Culture. 2. The Meaning of Punishment: Inmates' Orientation to the Prison Experience. 3. Is Incarceration Really Worse? Analysis of Offenders' Preferences for Prison Over Probation. 4. Self-Esteem, Depression, and Anxiety Evidenced by a Prison Inmate Sample: Interrelationships and Consequences for Prison Programming. II. INDIVIDUAL ADJUSTMENT FACTORS. 5. Race and Economic Marginality in Explaining Prison Adjustment. 6. Age and Adjustment to Prison: Interactions with Attitudes and Anxiety. 7. Victimization in Prisons: A Study of Factors Related to the General Well-Being of Youthful Inmates. 8. Friend or Foe? Race, Age, and Inmate Perceptions of Inmate-Staff Relations. 9. The Mix: The Culture of Imprisoned Women. III. INSTITUTIONAL ADJUSTMENT FACTORS. 10. Explaining Variation in Perceptions of Inmate Crowding. 11. Fear and Loathing in the Joint: The Impact of Race and Age on Inmate Support for Prison AIDS policies. 12. Personal Precautions to Violence in Prison. 13. The Organizational Structure of Prison Gangs: A Texas Case Study. 14. Ultramasculine Prison Environments and Inmates' Adjustment: It's Time to Move Beyond the "Boys Will Be Boys" Paradigm. IV. SOCIETAL ADJUSTMENT FACTORS. 15. All the Women in the Maryland State Penitentiary: 1812-1869. 16. Justice for All? Offenders with Mental Retardation and the California Corrections System. 17. Collateral Costs of Imprisonment for Women: Complications of Reintegration. 18. A Large-Scale Multidimensional Test of the Effect of Prison Education Programs on Offenders' Behavior. 19. Three-Year Reincarceration Outcomes for In-Prison Therapeutic Community Treatment in Texas.
