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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Prison life"”.
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Adapting to Prison Life
… longitudinally how young offenders cope with prison life, in particular the relationship between early coping styles and later levels of psychological health' and homesickness. The research was conducted in two parts. The first was a preliminary study to modify a homesickness questionnaire …
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FOOD AND PERFORMANCE IN THE PRISON SYSTEM
… the United States. The growing epidemic of the prison industrial complex creates a critical situation; performance studies offers significant ways to address the increasing problems of incarceration. The purpose of this study is to contribute to the intersection of academic literature connecting …
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"""Too Much Time for the Crime I Done"": Race, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Punishment in Illinois and South Carolina, 1865 to 1900"
… ethnicity clashed with the violent reality of prison life helps illustrate how minority groups forged an identity in opposition to the broader values of the nation. Such findings contribute directly to African-American history and immigration studies by exposing the importance of political …
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The media consumption patterns of female inmates
… of the institution and with a number of prison administrators and staff Analysis of the media regimens of the female inmates reflects a variety of tastes, experiences and habits of individuals who use unique strategies to adapt to prison life.
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The association between trauma, offending behaviour, self harm and substance use with dissociation and absorption in male prisoners
There are an increased number of people imprisoned every year in England and Wales. Whilst in prison up to 13% of prisoners engage in self harm, (HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, 2005) often to cope and deal with the stressful environment of prison life. In addition to this up to 80% of prisoners …
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Women in prison: Do visits from children influence inmate behavior?
The number of women in prison is increasing at an alarming rate in the United States today. Because nearly 75 percent of incarcerated women are mothers of minor children, the issue of maintaining family relations deserves special attention. This study examines child visitation and its relationship …
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Voices of immates in prison : a qualitative analysis
… and understand the experiences of inmates in prisons. The study involved 10 inmates who had served at least two years of their sentence. In this study, the researcher used purposive sampling in selecting the research participants. Data was collected using an essay, where participants were …
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Interpersonal Dynamics of Volunteers for a Simulated Prison Study, General Psychological Study, and a Helping-Behavior Study
The Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE) is one of the most studied and celebrated studies within social psychology. The results have long been attributed to the power of the situation and the roles that were given to the participants. The present study was based on research concerning how personality …
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Cafeteria, Commissary and Cooking: Foodways and Negotiations of Power and Identity in a Women’s Prison
… by analyzing women’s narratives about prison food and eating. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 30 formerly incarcerated women in New Haven, CT. The interviews were digitally recorded and transcribed. Findings explain the different ways that inmates collect, prepare, …
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Challenging occupational norms : an ethnographic study of female prison officers in a women's prison
Female prison officers have an important role to play in the lives of the imprisoned women they are charged with ‘looking after’. This thesis draws upon 64 days of research, over 35 weeks, over a 12-month period to produce a unique ethnographic study of female frontline officers responsible for …
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‘It’s not just about lock and key, it’s about you as a human being': treating the person before the personality disorder in prison
… borderline personality disorder (BPD) within UK prisons (Sansone & Sansone, 2009). Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) has shown effectiveness in managing the symptomatology of BPD and has been adapted for a forensic context (Nee & Farman, 2005, Gee & Reed, 2013). There is limited qualitative …
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In This Place Called Prison: How Religion Structures The Social World Of Incarcerated Women
… sociologists have long examined what governs the prison social world. However, prior studies have generally overlooked how religion organizes and stratifies life in prison. Drawing upon 12 months of ethnographic fieldwork inside a U.S. state women’s prison, this dissertation demonstrates that …
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A stylistic and thematic analysis of Zambian prison poetry: the case of Mwembeshi maximum security prison.
… that the service was transforming from custodial prison system to a correctional service. Using a mixed methods inquiry anchored on the stylistic, social constructionism and structuralism study analysed selected poems written by inmates from the Mwembeshi Maximum Correctional Facility. The …
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A stylistic and thematic analysis of Zambian prison poetry: the case of Mwembeshi maximum security prison.
… that the service was transforming from custodial prison system to a correctional service. Using a mixed methods inquiry anchored on the stylistic, social constructionism and structuralism study analysed selected poems written by inmates from the Mwembeshi Maximum Correctional Facility. The …
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Democratising Democracy: Reimagining Prisoners as Active Citizens Through Participatory Governance
… the non-profit organisation User Voice and its prison-based democratic council model. Mixed methods were employed to examine the construction and operation of a council, which strives to give a voice to prisoners and to facilitate collaborative problem-solving with staff. The key research …
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KORYDULLO: A STUDY OF A GREEK PRISON FOR WOMEN OFFENDERS
… more and more attention is being focused on the prison as an object of scientific study. Despite its vast dimensions the field has been confined--except in a few instances--to the study of male prisons. The female prison, in the United States and in other countries, has been overlooked. To offset …
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Smoke-free New Zealand prisons: Changes in health perceptions of male prisoners following a smoking cessation programme: An evaluative study
… the changes in health perceptions of men in prison following a smoking cessation programme. DESIGN In depth semi-structured interviews and a quality of life questionnaire (SF-36) were carried out with 12 prisoners in November 2011. Thirty-eight prisoners also completed two separate lung age …
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Using leisure as a coping tool: A feminist study of the recreational experiences of incarcerated women in a Puerto Rican prison
… in the lives of incarcerated women in a women’s prison in Puerto Rico. The study took place in the Escuela Industrial de Mujeres at Vega Alta, Puerto Rico. The methods of this qualitative study consisted of individual interviews and focus groups to gather the opinions of a group of 45 …