The Contemporary Salience of Deprivation Theory
Prison Personnel Perceptions of Inmates and the Pains of Solitary Confinement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21308772 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vivian Aranda-Hughes (0000-0001-7632-1132, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA, corresponding author), Daniel P Mears (0000-0001-8594-5350, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA), George B Pesta (Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA), Jennifer M Brown (0000-0002-8994-5005, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 399-430 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Crime & Delinquency (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-1287 • E-ISSN: 1552-387X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0011128720974310 |
| OpenAlex | W3108803321 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 75 |
In recent decades, long-term solitary confinement has become a mainstay of prison systems. Critiques and research of this confinement typically have focused on its potential harms. Few studies have examined the range of harms to those placed in it; fewer still have examined solitary confinement’s potential benefits or sought insight from those who work with them. Guided by Sykes’ deprivation theory, we draw on focus groups and interviews with 144 correctional personnel to examine their perceptions of incarcerated individuals’ experiences with, and responses to, deprivations of solitary confinement. We show that staff view the pains of imprisonment as potentially increasing or decreasing in solitary confinement and that they view incarcerated persons as adapting to such confinement in different ways
Cognitive psychology · Criminology · Imprisonment · Perception · Prison · Salience (neuroscience) · Sociology · Solitary confinement · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Homelessness and Social Issues · Neuroscience · Psychology · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending · Social Psychology
Society of women
Evaluation
Subcultural Adaptations to Incarceration
The Effects of Administrative Segregation
Analyzing Qualitative Data
The Pains of Imprisonment Revisited
Mental Health Issues in Long-Term Solitary and “Supermax” Confinement
Pains of Probation
Staff culture, use of authority and prisoner quality of life in public and private sector prisons
The Oxford Handbook of Prisons and Imprisonment
Handbook on the Consequences of Sentencing and Punishment Decisions
Total Confinement
Supermax
Living in prison
Inmate Society in the Era of Mass Incarceration
Restricting the Use of Solitary Confinement
The Rise and Rise of Supermax
Paternal pains of imprisonment
Depth, weight, tightness
Doing the programme or doing me? The pains of youth imprisonment
Alcatraz and Marion
The prison as a reinventive institution
The `Society of Captives' in the Era of Hyper-Incarceration
History of Solitary Confinement Is Associated with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms among Individuals Recently Released from Prison
The Long Reach of the Carceral State
The Effects of Solitary Confinement on Prison Inmates
Interpersonal Violence and Social Order in Prisons
The Purposes, Practices, and Problems of Supermax Prisons
Correctional officer attitudes toward inmates and working with inmates in a “get tough” era
The Collateral Consequences of Incarceration Revisited
Supermax Incarceration and Recidivism
The Effect of Supermaximum Security Prisons on Aggregate Levels of Institutional Violence
Penality and the Penal State
Sexual victimization against transgender women in prison
Roads diverged
The Society of Captives
Correctional Officers and the Incarcerated Mentally Ill
Quantitative syntheses of the effects of administrative segregation on inmates’ well-being
The Impact of Correctional Officer Perceptions of Inmates on Job Stress
Focus Groups
The methodology of Focus Groups
| Citations per year | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |