lecture 8 - experiencing imprisonment (coping and not coping)

Question 1

what are 2 coping strategies?

Answer 1

1. managing time CONSTRUCTIVELY and finding ways of psychological survival
2. normatively DYSFUNCTIONAL strategies

Question 2

2 types of normatively dysfunctional stategies

Answer 2

• withdrawal
• resistance

Question 3

how many recorded self-harm incidents in 2022?

Answer 3

55,000

Question 4

how many people took their own life in prison in 2022? how many awaiting classification?

Answer 4

64 people took their own life
38 awaiting classification

Question 5

what is problem-focused coping?

Answer 5

action-oriented

Question 6

what is emotion-focused coping?

Answer 6

controlling or avoiding emotions

Question 7

how do prisoners fill time during core day? what does it depend on?
what do longer term prisons have?

Answer 7

• depends on security category, function, IEP level
• purposeful activities
• longer term prisons: voluntary offending behaviour programmes OBPs

Question 8

what does ricciardelli 2016 say how we manage time?

Answer 8

rituals and routines

Question 9

what does irwin 1970 say about how manage time?

Answer 9

gleaning

Question 10

what does crewe say about how we manage time through

Answer 10

productive agency

Question 11

what can gleaning and productive agency enable the creation of?

Answer 11

redemptive narratives

Question 12

what types of withdrawal cause psychological absenteeism?
absenteeism = withdrawal behaviour

Answer 12

-drugs
- food and eating disorders
- sexual activity
- institutionalisation

Question 13

how many estimated prisoners use class A drugs outside prison?
what % use in prison?

Answer 13

2/3 outside prison
50-75% in prison

Question 14

what sexual activity is found in prisons?

Answer 14

• situational homosexuality
• a culture of denial

Question 15

institutionalisation is caused by?

Answer 15

over-reliance on rituals and routines

Question 16

what type of resistance do prisoners experience in emotion-focused coping?

Answer 16

physical and psychological subversion

Question 17

examples of physical and psychological subversion

Answer 17

• riots, escapes, assaults on staff
• jailing
• informal economy of importing and trading drugs
• pushing the boundaries
• questioning legitimacy of prisons or sentence

Question 18

examples of questioning legitimacy of prison or ones sentence?

Answer 18

• censoriousness
• rejection of the rejectors
• legal appeals
• challenging prison rules

Question 19

how many women account for all self-harm incidents?

Answer 19

1 in 5

Question 20

self inflicted deaths are how much more likely in prison?

Answer 20

6 times more likely

Question 21

when is the greatest risk of self-inflicted deaths?

Answer 21

greatest risk when on remand or in early stages

Question 22

how many SID in the first month? how many in first week?

Answer 22

1 in 4 in first month
half of these in first week

Question 23

what factors are associated with ability to cope?

Answer 23

• individual (imported)
• institutional or situational (indigenous)

Question 24

examples of individual (imported) factors?

Answer 24

• age
• gender
• ethnicity
• religious belief
• prior psychological resilience
• offence
• basically anything previously had or have

Question 25

examples of institutional/ situational (indigenous) factors?

Answer 25

• prison conditions
• access to purposeful activities
• support from staff/ family/ friends
• prisons response to bullying and assaults
• responsibilities of HMPPS