Contents
Foreword by Andrew Coyle
1 Introduction: the effects of imprisonment revisited Alison Liebling and Shadd Maruna
Part 1 The Harms of Imprisonment: Thawing Out The ‘Deep Freeze’ Paradigm
2 Release and adjustment: perspectives from studies of wrongly convicted and politically motivated prisoners Ruth Jamieson and Adrian Grounds
3 The contextual revolution in psychology and the question of prison effects Craig Haney
4 Harm and the contemporary prison John Irwin and Barbara Owen
5 The effects of supermax custody Roy D. King
6 The politics of confi nement: women’s imprisonment in California and the UK Candace Kruttschnitt
Part 2 Revisiting the Society of Captives
7 Codes and conventions: the terms and conditions of contemporary inmate values Ben Crewe
8 Revisiting prison suicide: the role of fairness and distress Alison Liebling, Linda Durie, Annick Stiles and Sarah Tait
9 Crossing the boundary: the transition of young adults into prison Joel Harvey
10 Brave new prisons: the growing social isolation of modern penal institutions Robert Johnson
11 ‘Soldiers’, ‘sausages’ and ‘deep sea diving’: language, culture and coping in Israeli prisons Tomer Einat
12 Forms of violence and regimes in prison: report of research in Belgian prisons Sonja Snacken
Part 3 Coping Among Ageing Prisoners
13 Older men in prison: survival, coping and identity Elaine Crawley and Richard Sparks
14 Loss, liminality and the life sentence: managing identity through a disrupted lifecourse Yvonne Jewkes
Part 4 Expanding the Prison Effects Debate Beyond the Prisoner
15 The effects of prison work Helen Arnold
16 Imprisonment and the penal body politic: the cancer of disciplinary governance Pat Carlen
17 The effects of imprisonment on families and children of prisoners Joseph Murray
Afterword
18 Reinventing prisons Hans Toch