NCJ Number
95835
Journal
Journal of Criminal Justice Volume: 12 Issue: 6 Dated: (1984) Pages: 601-615
Date Published
1984
Length
15 pages
Annotation
While a considerable body of research exists on male strategies of adaptation to imprisonment, studies on the female response has been relatively limited to attempts to develop a theoretical model. This article applies an explanatory model with three adaptive approaches to women incarcerated in three prisons.
Abstract
Friendship, extra-prison, pre-prison, and prison specific variables are linked to adaptive responses and consequence variables. Prison specific variables seem to be the most influential; however, analysis reveals that friendship diversity has a critical impact on individual perceptions of prison conditions and on criminal identity. Our findings seem to coincide with recent studies, but depart from them by finding that pre-prison variables do not have key explanatory power. Friendship and prison specific variables are the core theoretical model variables linked to female adaptive strategies. (Author abstract)