by Mary K. Stohr
The Inmate Prison Experience provides a comprehensive examination of who the inmates are and what prison does to them, and places it in a historical context with the use of both recent and older research on the subject.
Contents
Inmate Adjustment to Prison
- Thieves, Convicts, and the Inmate Culture
- The Meaning of Punishment: Inmates' Orientation to the Prison Experience
- Is Incarceration Really Worse? Analysis of Offenders' Preferences for Prison Over Probation
- Self-Esteem, Depression, and Anxiety Evidenced By a Prison Inmate Sample: Interrelationships and Consequences For Prison Programming
Individual Adjustment Factors
- Race and Economic Marginality in Explaining Prison Adjustment
- Age and Adjustment to Prison: Interactions with Attitudes and Anxiety
- Victimization in Prisons: A Study of Factors Related to the General Well-Being of Youthful Inmates
- Friend or Foe? Race, Age, and Inmate Perceptions of Inmate-Staff Relations
- The Mix: The Culture of Imprisoned Women
Institutional Adjustment Factors
- Explaining Variation in Perceptions of Inmate Crowding
- Fear and Loathing in the Joint: The Impact of Race and Age on Inmate Support for Prison AIDS Policies
- Personal Precautions to Violence in Prison
- The Organizational Structure of Prison Gangs: A Texas Case Study
- Ultramasculine Prison Environments and Inmates' Adjustment: It's Time to Move Beyond the "Boys Will Be Boys" Paradigm
Societal Adjustment Factors
- All the Women in the Maryland State Penitentiary: 1812-1869
- Justice For All? Offenders With Mental Retardation and the California Corrections System
- Collateral Costs of Imprisonment for Women: Complications of Reintegration
- A Large-Scale Multidimensional Test of the Effect of Prison Education Programs on Offenders' Behavior
- Three-Year Reincarceration Outcomes for In-Prison Therapeutic Community Treatment in Texas
Index
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