Living Inside Prison Walls: Adjustment Behavior

by Victoria R. DeRosia

Are advantaged offenders defenseless against the harshness of prison life? Based upon a qualitative study of the prison adjustment of advantaged offenders--those who, prior to prison, possessed college degrees and held high status occupations with commensurately high incomes--this book challenges the special sensitivity hypothesis and concludes that these offenders adjust well to incarceration. The author compared a group of advantaged offenders...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275958957
• ISBN13: 9780275958954
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.6"