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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 confines of the laboratory, and spent a sab batical year in the equivalent of a clinical internship. I then spent some time as a part-time consultant in a local penitentiary. Most of my time in the institution was spent with inmates with a variety of problems, probably about 50 individuals over the course of a year. Although this was far fewer than a full-time psychologist in the system might encounter, it served as a quick cram course on problem prisoners and prisoner problems. Very quickly my stereotypes about convicts were shown to be virtually useless. I learned that the criminal classes included all levels of society, and that the behavior of prisoners was the same as that of other human beings in a difficult environment.
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Front Matter
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Book Title: Coping, Behavior, and Adaptation in Prison Inmates
Authors: Edward Zamble, Frank J. Porporino
Series Title: Research in Criminology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8757-2
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1988
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-8759-6Published: 11 September 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-8757-2Published: 11 November 2013
Series ISSN: 1431-7540
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 204
Topics: Psychology, general, Psychiatry, Neurology