Prison effects of in the age of mass incarceration / Craig Haney
In: The Prison Journal. Pennsylvania. [s.n.] (2012) , p. 1-24Idioma: Inglês.País: Estados Unidos.ISSN: 0032-8855Assunto: PSICOLOGIA | POPULAÇÃO PRISIONAL | STRESS | EFEITOS PSICOLÓGICOS DA PRISÃO CDU: 159.9 Localização e Cota : 159.9HAN Resumo: This article summarizes some of the negative psychological effects of imprisonment. It examines the psychological stressors—dehumanization, deprivation, and danger—to which prisoners are exposed, and the process of prisonization by which they attempt to accommodate to their conditions of confinement. It also discusses the effects of two opposite prison extremes, overcrowding and solitary confinement, as well as the kind of vulnerabilities that many prisoners bring to prison that make the experience a form of retraumatization for them. The article ends with a set of brief, programmaticbut psychologically informed proposals for change.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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This article summarizes some of the negative psychological effects of imprisonment. It examines the psychological stressors—dehumanization, deprivation, and danger—to which prisoners are exposed, and the process of prisonization by which they attempt to accommodate to their conditions of confinement. It also discusses the effects of two opposite prison extremes, overcrowding and solitary confinement, as well as the kind of vulnerabilities that many prisoners bring to prison that make the experience a form of retraumatization for them. The article ends with a set of brief, programmaticbut psychologically informed proposals for change.
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