Lecture 8: Experiencing imprisonment (coping and non-coping) Flashcards
How many recorded self-harm incidents were there in prisons in 2022?
55,000
What does HMP stand for?
Her Majesty’s Prison
What time is unlock and roll call according to the document?
8am
What does IEP stand for?
Incentives and Earned Privileges
What does OBP stand for?
Offending Behaviour Programme
What does ‘bang up’ refer to?
Locking prisoners in their cells
What does the term “gleaning” refer to?
Making the most of being in prison
What does the term “cultural capital” mean?
A prisoner’s skills and resources
What does the term “situational homosexuality” refer to?
Sexual activity between prisoners of the same gender
What term refers to over-reliance on prison rituals and routines?
Institutionalization
What does “jailing” refer to?
Participating in the informal prison economy
What term refers to prisoners questioning the legitimacy of their sentence?
Resistance
What are men more likely to do than women in prison?
Commit suicide
How many times more likely is the risk of self-inflicted death in prison compared to outside?
6 times
What 2 factors affect a prisoner’s ability to cope?
Individual and institutional
Which is NOT stated in the document as being associated with prisoners’ ability to cope?
Type of offence
What are prisons expected to provide to assist prisoner coping?
Purposeful activities
The document states that some coping strategies may be ______ rather than _______.
Maladaptive; pragmatic
The document questions whether prison life is conducive to:
Rehabilitation
What researcher is credited with the concept of “rejection of the rejectors”?
Sykes
The quote about prison giving purpose and meaning to life comes from:
A male prisoner
The quote about never speaking before about feeling mentally drained is from:
A female prisoner
What offence had the children committed?
Sexual abuse
Which prisoner studied Marxism whilst in prison?
Johnny
What type of coping is “taking yourself mentally away”?
Emotion-focused
What does SID stand for?
Self-inflicted death
What do most prisoner do in relation to coping with imprisonment?
Learn to adapt
What are 2 coping strategies?
- Managing time CONSTRUCTIVELY and finding ways of psychological survival
- Normatively DYSFUNCTIONAL strategies
2 types of normatively dysfunctional strategies:
- Withdrawal
- Resistance
What is problem-focused coping?
Action-orientated
What is emotion-focused coping?
Controlling or avoiding emotions
How do prisoners fill time during core day? What does it depend on?
What do longer term prisons have?
- Depends on security category, function, IEP level
- Purposeful activities
- Longer term prisons: voluntary OBPs
What does Ricciardelli 2016 say how we manage time?
Rituals and routines
What does Irwin 1970 say about how manage time?
Gleaning
What does Crewe say about how we manage time?
Productive agency
What can gleaning and productive agency enable the creation of?
Redemptive narratives
What types of withdrawal cause psychological absenteeism?
- Drugs
- Food and eating disorders
- Sexual activity
What sexual activity is found in prisons?
- Situational homosexuality
- A culture of denial
What type of resistance do prisoners experience in emotion-focused coping?
Physical and psychological subversion
Examples of physical and psychological subversion:
- Riots, escapes and assault on staff
- Jailing
- ‘Pushing the boundaries’
Examples of questioning legitimacy of prison or ones sentence?
- Censoriousness - being judgmental about prison officers
- ‘Rejection of the rejectors’
- Legal appeals and challenging prison rules
When is the greatest risk of self-inflicted deaths?
Whilst on remand or in early stages
What factors are associated with ability to cope?
- Individual
- Institutional/ situational
Examples of individual (imported) factors?
- Age
- Gender
- Religion
- Offence
Examples of institutional/ situational (indigenous) factors?
- Prison conditions
- Access to purposeful activities
- Support from staff and family
