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Coping, Behavior, and Adaptation in Prison Inmates

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  • © 1988

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Authors:
  1. Edward Zamble

    1. Department of Psychology, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada

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  2. Frank J. Porporino

    1. Ministry of the Solicitor General of Canada, Ottawa, Canada

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Part of the book series: Research in Criminology (RESEARCH CRIM.)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Edward Zamble, Frank J. Porporino
    Pages 1-15

  3. The Study: Design, Methods, Materials

    • Edward Zamble, Frank J. Porporino
    Pages 16-31

  4. Subjects: Selection and Characteristics

    • Edward Zamble, Frank J. Porporino
    Pages 32-41

  5. Lifestyle and Behavior on the Outside

    • Edward Zamble, Frank J. Porporino
    Pages 42-50

  6. Problems and Coping on the Outside

    • Edward Zamble, Frank J. Porporino
    Pages 51-75

  7. The Impact of Imprisonment

    • Edward Zamble, Frank J. Porporino
    Pages 76-89

  8. Coping in Prison

    • Edward Zamble, Frank J. Porporino
    Pages 90-102

  9. The Impact of Imprisonment II — Changes over Time

    • Edward Zamble, Frank J. Porporino
    Pages 103-123

  10. Circumstances: Some Major Personal and Environmental Variables

    • Edward Zamble, Frank J. Porporino
    Pages 124-131

  11. Predicting Adaptation

    • Edward Zamble, Frank J. Porporino
    Pages 132-144

  12. Conclusions: What Prisons Do and Don’t Do

    • Edward Zamble, Frank J. Porporino
    Pages 145-155

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 156-204
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About this book

This book is the report of a collaborative effort. Frank Porporino and I arrived at the starting point for our work together by very different routes. Originally trained as an experimental psychologist, I had become in­ creasingly restive within the confines of the laboratory, and spent a sab­ batical year in the equivalent of a clinical internship. I then spent some time as a part-time consultant in a local penitentiary. Most of my time in the institution was spent with inmates with a variety of problems, probably about 50 individuals over the course of a year. Although this was far fewer than a full-time psychologist in the system might encounter, it served as a quick cram course on problem prisoners and prisoner problems. Very quickly my stereotypes about convicts were shown to be virtually useless. I learned that the criminal classes included all levels of society, and that the behavior of prisoners was the same as that of other human beings in a difficult environment.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Psychology, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada

    Edward Zamble

  • Ministry of the Solicitor General of Canada, Ottawa, Canada

    Frank J. Porporino

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Coping, Behavior, and Adaptation in Prison Inmates

  • Authors: Edward Zamble, Frank J. Porporino

  • Series Title: Research in Criminology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8757-2

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-8759-6Published: 11 September 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-8757-2Published: 11 November 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1431-7540

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 204

  • Topics: Psychology, general, Psychiatry, Neurology

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