Coping, Behavior, and Adaptation in Prison Inmates
Başlık:
Coping, Behavior, and Adaptation in Prison Inmates
ISBN:
9781461387572
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Edition:
1st ed. 1988.
Yayın Bilgileri:
New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 1988.
Fiziksel Tanımlama:
XV, 204 p. online resource.
Series:
Research in Criminology
Contents:
1 Introduction -- Theory and Context: Understanding the Causes of Behavior -- Interaction and Action -- Sociological Analyses of Imprisonment -- Psychological Effects of Imprisonment -- Other Consequences of Imprisonment -- Coping Theory -- 2 The Study: Design, Methods, Materials -- Aims: What This Study Tried to Accomplish -- Design Overview -- Setting -- Measures and Materials -- 3 Subjects: Selection and Characteristics -- Selection and Recruitment -- Characteristics: Sentences, Offenses, Criminal History -- Social and Economic Background -- Personal History -- 4 Lifestyle and Behavior on the Outside -- Time and Planning -- Socialization -- Criminal Activities -- 5 Problems and Coping on the Outside -- The Problems of Subjects -- First Impressions of Coping -- Categories of Coping Responses -- The Quality of Coping -- Relationships Between Measurement Types -- Some Hypotheses -- 6 The Impact of Imprisonment -- Disruptions -- Negative Effects -- Positive Effects -- 7 Coping in Prison -- Problems in Prison -- Coping in Prison: Categories -- The Quality of Coping in Prison -- Coping and Previous Imprisonment -- 8 The Impact of Imprisonment. II-Changes over Time -- Test-Retest Correlations -- Short-Term Changes -- The Closing Window -- Summary: Behavior and Coping After Acclimation -- One Year Later -- Summary: The Effects of Longer-term Imprisonment -- 9 Circumstances: Some Major Personal and Environmental Variables -- Differences Across Institutions -- Length of Sentence -- 10 Predicting Adaptation -- Outcome Criteria -- Core Variables and Simple Correlations -- Predictive Analyses -- Some Consequences -- 11 Conclusions: What Prisons Do and Don't Do -- What Prisons Do Not Do: The Breaking Ground -- What Prisons Do: The Deep Freeze -- Changing the Prison Experience -- References -- Appendices -- Author Index.
Abstract:
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.
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