Coping, Behavior, and Adaptation in Prison Inmates
This book is the report of a collaborative effort. Frank Porporino and I arrived at the starting point for our work together by very different routes. Originally trained as an experimental psychologist, I had become in creasingly restive within the confi
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Research in Criminology
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Edward Zamble Frank J. Porporino
Coping, Behavior, and Adaptation in Prison Inmates
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Edward Zamble Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada Frank J. Porporino Ministry of the Solicitor General of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 2C3 Canada Series Editors Alfred Blumstein School of Urban and Public Affairs, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
David P. Farrington Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 9DT, England Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Zamble, Edward. Coping, behavior, and adaptation in prison inmates/by Edward Zamble and Frank Porporino. p. cm.-(Research in criminology) Bibliography: p. Includes index. ISBN-13: 978-1-4613-8759-6 e-ISBN-13: 978-1-4613-8757-2 DOl: 10.1007/978-1-4613-8757-2 1. Prison psychology-Case studies. 2. Adjustment (Psychology)Case studies. I. Porporino, Frank. II. Title. III. Series. HV6089.Z36 1988 365'.6'019-dc 19
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This book is dedicated to all those on both sides of the barriers who have to cope everyday with the reality of prison life
Preface
This book is the report of a collaborative effort. Frank Porporino and I arrived at the starting point for our work together by very different routes. Originally trained as an experimental psychologist, I had become increasingly restive within the confines of the laboratory, and spent a sabbatical year in the equivalent of a clinical internship. I then spen
