NCJ Number
168790
Date Published
1992
Length
424 pages
Annotation
This book discusses the coping behavior of prison inmates.
Abstract
Based on data gathered from approximately 900 interviews with prisoners and staff in New York correctional institutions, the book identifies the following areas of predominate inmate concern: privacy, activity, structure, support, emotional feedback, social stimulation, and freedom. In a section on transactions with prison environments, the book addresses: activity and stimulus deprivation; task involvement, ego involvement and self-actualization; privacy; violence from without and within; emotional feedback; opportunity for achievement; stability of the environment; dependence and autonomy; and environmental themes. Part of the book deals with stress and its amelioration in discussions of inmate victimization, niches in prison and living in protection. The book also discusses The Prison Preference Inventory (PPI), with comparisons of interview results and PPI data; patterns of preference profiles; classification for inmate survival; and the PPI as a classification tool. Notes, tables, appendixes, references, index