Doing Time: Prison Experience and Identity Among First-Time Inmates

by Thomas J. Schmitt and Richard S. Jones

"Doing Time" describes life in a maximum security prison, as experienced by first-time prisoners. The study is based on a collaboration between an inmate-sociology graduate student and a sociologist. The analysis presented focuses on the phenomenological experience of the prison world and the consequent adaptations and transformations that it evokes. "Doing Time" is not an expose on prison conditions; it is an intimate view of a maximum security prison...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762305436
• ISBN13: 9780762305438
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Jai Press Inc.
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"