The Pains of Imprisonment

摘要: What are the primary constituents of stress in prison, and how can it be ameliorated? The specific conditions that create -- from initial loss freedom, to overcrowding, victimization riots described analyzed. effects prison on populations: women, minorities, adolescents, parolees, also researched. Recommendations for long-term policy made maximizing environmental resources improving classification treatment. '...highly recommended all professional academic libraries. It is suitable both upper-division undergraduate graduate students areas stress, psychology, penology, sociology, criminal justice.' Choice, July/August 1983 '...the conclusions recommendations research this volume will clearly interest an international readership. social worker, particular, usefully informed behavioural consequences amongst inmates (and, a lesser extent, staff) recent changes such as overcrowding...the strengths text lie...in its detailed ethnography experience, practical staff, psychologists workers, concerning most effectively alleviate excess suffering which current policies physical enforced prisoners. ' International Journal Social Work book successful scholarly discussion "pains imprisonment" and, like good scholarship, leads reader consider future directions applications knowledge.' Contemporary Psychology, Vol 29 No 7, 1984