Effects of Imprisonment

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. <p>Foreword 1. Introduction: the effects of imprisonment revisited <strong>Part 1: The Harms of Imprisonment - Thawing Out The 'Deep Freeze' Paradigm</strong> 2. Release and adjustment: perspectives from studies of wrongly convicted and politically motivated prisoners<em> </em> 3. The contextual revolution in psychology and the question of prison effects 4. Harm and the contemporary prison <em> </em>5. The effects of supermax custody 6. The politics of confi nement: women's imprisonment in California and the UK <strong>Part 2: Revisiting the Society of Captives</strong> 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 <strong>Part 3: Coping Among Ageing Prisoners </strong>13. Older men in prison: survival, coping and identity<em> </em> 14. Loss, liminality and the life sentence: managing identity through a disrupted lifecourse <strong>Part 4: Expanding the Prison Effects Debate Beyond the Prisoner</strong> 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 </p>