The Effects of Imprisonment (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Liebling, Alison; Maruna, Shadd

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together a group of leading authorities in this field, both academics and practitioners, to address the complex issues that the increasing number of prisoners in the UK, USA and elsewhere has raised. It assess the implications and results of research in this field, and suggests ways of mitigating the often devastating personal and psychological consequences of imprisonment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134012466
• Artikelnr.: 41218244

Autorenporträt

Alison Liebling is Professor of Criminology at the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University. Shadd Maruna is Professor of Justice and Human Development at the School of Law, Queen's University Belfast.

Inhaltsangabe

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