ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|143 pages
The Harms of Imprisonment
chapter Chapter 2|33 pages
Release and adjustment
Perspectives from studies of wrongly convicted and politically motivated prisoners
chapter Chapter 3|28 pages
The contextual revolution in psychology and the question of prison effects
part II|165 pages
Revisiting the Society of Captives
chapter Chapter 7|32 pages
Codes and conventions
The terms and conditions of contemporary inmate values
chapter Chapter 10|30 pages
Brave new prisons
The growing social isolation of modern penal institutions
chapter Chapter 11|21 pages
‘Soldiers', ‘sausages' and ‘deep sea diving’
Language, culture and coping in Israeli prisons
chapter Chapter 12|34 pages
Forms of violence and regimes in prison
Report of research in Belgian prisons
part III|48 pages
Coping Among Ageing Prisoners
chapter Chapter 14|23 pages
Loss, liminality and the life sentence
Managing identity through a disrupted lifecourse
part IV|74 pages
Expanding the Prison Effects Debate Beyond the Prisoner
chapter Chapter 16|21 pages
Imprisonment and the penal body politic
The cancer of disciplinary governance
part V|10 pages
Afterword
