The Society of Captives

By Gresham M. Sykes. 2020

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Social isolation and inmate behavior: A conceptual framework for theorizing prison visitation and guiding and assessing research (2013, background): “Newly incarcerated individuals often experience an initial shock that includes feelings of loss, uncertainty, and isolation (e.g., Sykes 1958; Adams 1992; Liebling 1999).”
Gangkill: An Exploratory Empirical Assessment of Gang Membership, Homicide Offending, and Prison Misconduct (2011, background): “The deprivation model posits that misconduct in prison is a result of the pains experienced from the deprivation of adjusting to the prison environment (Clemmer, 1940; Sykes, 1958).”
Emotion and performance (2004, background): “Moreover, while the sociology of the prison has acknowledged the impact of prison on the emotional lives of prisoners (see, for example, Sykes, 1958; Cohen and Taylor, 1972; Serge, 1977; Boyle, 1984) there has been much less academic interest1 in the emotional impact of the prison on its uniformed…”
Inmate-On-Inmate Assault (2008, background): “Developed during the 1950s and 1960s, deprivation theory suggested that inmate socialization was a specific response to the losses suffered or “pains of imprisonment” experienced at a prison or total institution (Goffman, 1961; Sykes, 1958).”
Causes and correlates of prison inmate misconduct: A systematic review of the evidence (2014, background): “Deprivation theory suggests that misconduct is a reflection of how inmates adapt and cope with the “pains” inflicted by the prison environment, whether through participation in a social system that helps to reduce these deprivations (Clemmer, 1940; Sykes, 1958), or through individual choices that he”