Coping, Behavior, and Adaptation in Prison Inmates
Published on 11. September 2013
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Paperback/Softback
XV, 204 pages
978-1-4613-8759-6 (ISBN)
Description
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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Series
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
XV, 204 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
347 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4613-8759-6 (9781461387596)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4613-8757-2
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Edward Zamble | Frank J. Porporino
Coping, Behavior, and Adaptation in Prison Inmates
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04/1988
Springer
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Content
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.