Behind Bars : Readings on Prison Culture

by Tewksbury, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780131190726
• ISBN10: 0131190725
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-03-03
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

Behind Bars: Readings on Prison Culture is an inside look at some of the most important and most challenging aspects of life in prison. The readings focus on psychological adaptations to incarceration, how inmates form and maintain relationships in and outside of prison, health issues and how officials can and do address such needs, programming opportunities, forms of violence, how the media presents images of prisons and correctional issues, and the challenges faced when leaving prison. Through in-depth examination of these topics readers are provided an essential understanding that can only be gained from looking at the experience of incarceration from the inside. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Richard Tewksbury is Professor of Justice Administration at the University of Louisville

Table of Contents

Part 1: Psychological Adaptations	1	(72)
Ambivalent Actions: Prison Strategies of First-Time, Short-Term Inmates	3	(14)
Schmid and Jones (1993)
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 21(4): 439--463
Inmate Experiences and Psychological Well-Being	17	(11)
Wooldredge (1999)
Criminal Justice and Behavior, 26(2): 235--250
Women's Accounts of Their Prison Experience: A Retrospective View of Their Subjective Realities	28	(19)
Pogrebin and Dodge (2001)
Journal of Criminal Justice, 29(6): 531--541
Mental Health Issues in Long-Term Solitary and ``Supermax'' Confinement	47	(26)
Haney (2003)
Crime & Delinquency, 49(1): 124--156
Part 2: Relationships Inside Prison	73	(56)
Effects of Organizational Change on Inmates' Status and the Inmate Code of Conduct	75	(12)
Faulkner and Faulkner (1997)
Journal of Crime and Justice, 20(1): 55--72
Descriptive Analysis of the Nature and Extent of Bullying Behavior in a Maximum-Security Prison	87	(10)
Ireland and Ireland (2000)
Aggressive Behavior, 26: 213-223
Exploring the Dynamics of Masturbation and Consensual Same-Sex Activity Within a Male Maximum Security Prison	97	(13)
Hensley, Tewksbury and Wright
Journal of Men's Studies, 10(1): 59--71
The Changing Nature of Interpersonal Relationships in a Women's Prison	110	(19)
Greer (2000)
The Prison Journal, 80(4): 442--468
Part 3: Relationships Outside Prison	129	(48)
It's a Family Affair: Incarcerated Women and Their Families	131	(19)
Sharp and Marcus-Mendoza (2001)
Women & Criminal Justice, 12(4): 21--49
Affective States of Fathers in Prison	150	(14)
Lanier (1993)
Justice Quarterly, 10(1): 49--65
Visiting Women in Prison: Who Visits and Who Cares?	164	(13)
Casey-Acevedo and Bakken (2002)
Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 34(3): 67--83
Part 4: Health Care and Substance Abuse	177	(138)
Practicing Penal Harm Medicine in the United States: Prisoners' Voices from Jail	180	(40)
Vaughn and Smith (1999)
Justice Quarterly, 16(1): 175--231
Meeting the Health Care Needs of the New Woman Inmate: A National Survey of Prison Practices	220	(17)
Young and Reviere (2001)
Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 34(2): 31--48
Implications for Corrections of an Aging Prison Population	237	(13)
Morton (2001)
Corrections Management Quarterly, 5(1): 78--88
High Risk HIV Transmission Behavior in Prison and the Prison Subculture	250	(20)
Krebs (2002)
The Prison Journal, 82(1): 19--49
Surviving in the Time Machine: Suicidal Prisoners and the Pains of Prison Time	270	(15)
Medicott (1999)
Time & Society, 8(2): 211--230
Drug Use in Prison: The Experience of Young Offenders	285	(13)
Cope (2000)
Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 7(4): 355--366
Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em: Cigarette Black Markets in U.S. Prisons and Jails	298	(17)
Lankenau (2001)
The Prison Journal, 81(2): 142--161
Part 5: Programming	315	(58)
Opportunities Lost: The Consequences of Eliminating Pell Grant Eligibility for Correctional Education Students	317	(12)
Tewksbury, Erickson and Taylor
Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 31(1/2): 43--56
The Value of Religion in Prison: An Inmate Perspective	329	(19)
Clear, Hardyman, Stout, Lucken, and Dammer (2000)
Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 16(1): 58--74
A National Survey of Group Psychotherapy Services in Correctional Facilities	348	(10)
Morgan, Winterowd, and Ferrell (1999)
Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 30(6): 600--606
Beyond Correctional Quackery---Professionalism and the Possibility of Effective Treatment	358	(15)
Latessa, Cullen, and Gendreau (2002)
Federal Probation, 66(2): 43--49
Part 6: Institutional Violence	373	(92)
Straight Time: Inmates' Perceptions of Violence and Victimization in the Prison Environment	376	(13)
Hemmens and Marquart (1999)
Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 28(3/4): 1--21
Inmate Misconduct: A Test of the Deprivation, Importation and Situational Models	389	(19)
Jiang, Shanhe, and Marianne Fischer-Giorlando (2002)
The Prison Journal, 82(3): 335--358
An Overview of the Challenge of Prison Gangs	408	(13)
Fleisher and Decker (2001)
Corrections Management Quarterly, 5(1): 1--9
The Evolving Nature of Prison Argot and Sexual Hierarchies	421	(9)
Hensley, Wright, Tewksbury, and Castle (2003)
The Prison Journal, 83(3): 289--300
Sexual Coercion Reported by Women in Three Midwestern Prisons	430	(15)
Struckman-Johnson and Struckman-Johnson (2002)
The Journal of Sex Research, 39(3): 217--227
Prison Riots as Organizational Failures: A Managerial Perspective	445	(20)
Boin and Van Duin (1995)
The Prison Journal, 75(3): 357--379
Part 7: Media Portrayals	465	(54)
``All the News That's Fit to Print'': A content Analysis of the Correctional Debate in the New York Times	467	(16)
Welch, Weber, and Edwards (2000)
The Prison Journal, 80(3): 245--264
Representations of Prison in Nineties Hollywood Cinema: From Con Air to The Shawshank Redemption	483	(16)
O'Sullivan (2001)
The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 40(4): 317--334
Media and Mayhem in Corrections: The Role of the Media in Prison Riots	499	(20)
Mahan and Lawrence (1996)
The Prison Journal, 76(4): 420--441
Part 8: Getting Out of Prison	519
Denial of Parole: An Inmate Perspective	521	(16)
West-Smith, Pogrebin, and Poole (2000)
Federal Probation, 64(2): 3--10
Going Home, Staying Home: Integrating Prison Gang Members into the Community	537	(17)
Fleisher and Decker (2001)
Corrections Management Quarterly, 5(1): 65--77
``Just Like Baking a Cake'': Women Describe the Necessary Ingredients for Successful Reentry After Incarceration''	554
O'Brien (2001)
Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Human Services, 82(3): 287--295