The Society of Captives: A Study of a Maximum Security Prison
By Gresham M. Sykes. 2007
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Subfields: History, Sociology and Political Science
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- Procedural justice, legitimacy, and prisoner misconduct (2009, background): “Although the reliability of official prison records has also been debated (Light, 1990; Reisig, 2002; Sykes, 1958), consistency in observed relationships across the two outcomes will bolster confidence in the reported findings.”
- Examining Prison Effects on Recidivism: A Regression Discontinuity Approach (2017, neutral): “…perspectives hypothesize that prisons increase offending by serving as “schools of crime” or by stigmatizing offenders in ways that increase their propensity for future criminal behavior (Bernburg & Krohn, 2003; Clemmer, 1958; Irwin, 2005; Paternos-ter & Iovanni, 1989; Sykes, 1958; Wacquant, 2001).”
- The Pains of Imprisonment Revisited: The Impact of Strain on Inmate Recidivism (2013, background): “This omission is somewhat perplexing, given that the pains of imprisonment have long been documented (Sykes, 1958) and that policymakers have explicitly celebrated the painfulness of prisons as a way of teaching offenders that “crime does not pay.”
- The Role of Transformation Narratives in Desistance Among Released Lifers (2014, background): “Uggen, C. (2000). Work as a turning point in the life course of criminals: A duration model of age, employment, and recidi-”
- Inmates’ Experiences with Prison Visitation (2019, background): “Isolation, loneliness, and a lack of contact with family and friends are some of the most distressing aspects of life behind bars (Sykes, 1958).”
- Prisons Do Not Reduce Recidivism (2011, background): “Gendreau, Goggin, Cullen, and Andrews (2000) undertook one of the first of these reviews, concluding that “clearly, the prison deterrent hypothesis is not supported” (p. 13). Across all comparisons, they found that incarceration resulted in a 7% increase in recidivism compared with a community sanct”
- The Cycle of Violence Behind Bars: Traumatization and Institutional Misconduct Among Juvenile Delinquents in Confinement (2010, background): “…delisi@iastate.edu prison edifice itself, the administrative regime, and the day-to-day enforcement practices of correctional staff were generally punitive and imposed assorted ‘‘pains’’ on prisoners, collectively this perspective is known as the deprivation model (Clemmer, 1940; Sykes, 1958).”
- ‘I am the person now I was always meant to be’: Identity reconstruction and narrative reframing in therapeutic community prisons (2012, background): “…expectations of the disparate group of people assigned to a prison wing; or rather, merely the anticipation that the resulting ‘society of captives’ (Sykes, 1958) will, with varying degrees of enthusiasm, adapt and adhere to the ‘criminalistic ideology’ (Clemmer, 1958: 300) of the inmate code,…”
- Suppression, denial, sublimation: Defending against the initial pains of very long life sentences (2017, background): “Early research into prison adjustment tended to identify the ‘social roles’ adopted to ‘reduce the rigours of prison life’ (Sykes, 1958/2007: 107), or highlighted the forms of criminal identity which mapped onto particular prisoner orientations (Irwin, 1970/1987).”
- The significance of ‘the visit’ in an English category-B prison: views from prisoners, prisoners’ families and prison staff (2012, background): “Although by providing financial assistance, prisoners’ families ameliorated the ‘deprivation of goods and services’ through providing the prisoner with various commodities (Mills, 2005; Sykes, 1958), this may have placed additional financial pressure on families.”