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Behind Bars

Readings on Prison Culture

by Richard Tewksbury

Published 2005576 pagesISBN 978-0-1311-9072-6

Ambivalent actions : prison strategies of first-time, short-term inmates / Schmid and Jones --Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 21 (4) 439-463. Inmate experiences and psychological well-being / Wooldredge -- Criminal Justice and Behavior 26 (2) 235 - 250. Women's accounts of their prison experience : a retrospective view of their subjective realities / Pogrebin and Dodge -- Journal of Criminal Justice 29 (6) 531-541. Mental health issues in long-term solitary and "supermax" confinement / Haney -- Crime and Delinquency 49 (1) 124-156. Effects of organizational change on inmates' status and the inmate code of conduct / Faulkner and Faulkner -- Journal of Crime and Justice 20 (1) 55-72. 6. Descriptive analysis of the nature and extend of bullying behavior in a maximum-security prison / Ireland and Ireland Aggressive Behavior 26 213 -223. Exploring the dynamics of masturbation and consensual same-sex activity within a male maximum security prison / Hensley, Tewksbury and Wright --^ Journal of Men's Studies 10 (1) 59-71 The changing nature of interpersonal relationships in a women's prison / Greer -- The Prison Journal 80 (4) 442 -468. It's a family affair : incarcerated women and their famlies / Sharp and Marcus-Mendoza -- Women and Criminal Justice 12 (4) 21-49. Affective states of fathers in prison / Lanier -- Justice Quarterly 10 (1) 49-65. Visiting women in prison : who visits and who cares? / Casey-Acevedo and Bakken -- Journal of Offender Rehabilitation 34 (3) 67-83. Practicing penal harm medicine in the United States : prisoners' voices from jail / Vaughn and Smith -- Justice Quarterly 16 (1) 175-231 Meeting the health care needs of the new woman inmate : a national survey of prison practices / Young and Reviere -- Journal of Offender Rehabilitation 34 (2) 31-48 Implications for corrections of an aging prison population / Morton --^ Corrections Management Quarterly 5 (1) 78-88. High risk HIV transmission behavior in prison and the prison subculture / Krebs -- The Prison Journal 82 (1) 19-49 Surviving in the time machine : suicidal prisoners and the pains of prison time / Medlicott -- Tiem and Society 8 (2) 211-230Drug use in prison : the experience of young offenders / Cope -- Drugs : Education, Prevention and Policy 7 (4) 355-366. Smoke 'em if you got 'em : cigarette black markets in U.S. prisons and jails / Lankenau --The Prison Journal 81 (2) 142 - 161. Opportunities lost : the consequences of eliminating Pell Grant eligibility for correctional education students / Tewksbury, Erickson and Taylor --Journal of Offender Rrehabilitation 31 (1/2) 43-56 The value of religion in prison : an inmate perspective / Clear, Hardyman, Stout, Lucken, and Dammer --^ Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 16 (1) 53-74. A national survey of group psychotherapy services in correctional facilities / Morgan, Winterowd, and Ferrell -- Professional Psychology : Research and Practice 30 (6) 600-606 Beyond correctional quackery - professionalism and the possibility of effective treatment / Latessa, Cullen, and Gendreau -- Federal Probation 66 (2) 43-49 --Straight time : inmates' perceptions of violence and victimization in the prison environment / Hemmens and Marquart -- Journal of Offender Rehabilitation 28 (3/4) 1-21 Inmate misconduct : a test of the deprivation, importation and situational models / Jiang, Shanhe, and Marianne Fischer-Giorlando -- The Prison Journal 82 (3) 335-358An overview of the challenge of prison gangs / Fleisher and Decker -- Corrections Management Quarterly 5 (1) 1-9 The evolving nature of prison argot and sexual hierarchies / Hensley, Wright, Tewksbury, and Castle --^ The Prison Journal 83 (3) 289-300 Sexual coercion reported by women in three midwestern prisons / Struckman-Johnson and Struckman-Johnson -- the Journal of Sex Research 39 (3) 217-227 Prison riots as organizational failures : a managerial perspective / Boin and Van Duin --The Prison Journal 75 (3) 357-379 "All the news that's fit to print" : a con

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