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

by Richard S. Jones (Editor), Thomas J. Schmid (Editor)

Overview

"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 and its effects on new inmates.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780762305438
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Publication date:	12/20/2000
Series:	Contemporary Ethnographic Studies , #9
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.55(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction. Midwestern State Prison. Experiential orientations to prison. Preprison orientation: from the outside looking in. Prison orientation: from violence to boredom. Postprison orientation: looking out. Adapting to the prison experience. Inmates' identity work. Prospects and promise. Appendix: research methods. References. Index.