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Book Incarceration Games

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen J Scott-Bottoms
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 2024
  • ISBN : 0472056719
  • Pages : 399 pages

Download or read book Incarceration Games written by Stephen J Scott-Bottoms and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revisiting the Stanford Prison Experiment and other psychological experiments as performance and theater

Book Incarceration Games

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen J. Scott-Bottoms
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 2024-04-30
  • ISBN : 0472221671
  • Pages : 399 pages

Download or read book Incarceration Games written by Stephen J. Scott-Bottoms and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to play a game? Incarceration Games reexamines the complex history and troubled legacy of improvised, interactive role-playing experiments. With particular attention to the notorious Stanford prison study, the author draws on extensive archival research and original interviews with many of those involved, to refocus attention on the in-game choices of the role-players themselves. Role-playing as we understand it today was initially developed in the 1930s as a therapeutic practice within the New York state penal system. This book excavates that history and traces the subsequent adoption of these methods for lab experimentation, during the postwar “stage production era” in American social psychology. It then examines the subsequent mutation of the Stanford experiment, in particular, into cultural myth—exploring the ways in which these distorted understandings have impacted on everything from reality TV formats to the “enhanced interrogation” of real-world terror suspects. Incarceration Games asks readers to reconsider what they thought they knew about this tangled history, and to look at it again from the role-player’s perspective.

Book Games Prisoners Play

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marek M. Kaminski
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2018-06-05
  • ISBN : 0691187142
  • Pages : 215 pages

Download or read book Games Prisoners Play written by Marek M. Kaminski and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 11, 1985, a van was pulled over in Warsaw for a routine traffic check that turned out to be anything but routine. Inside was Marek Kaminski, a Warsaw University student who also ran an underground press for Solidarity. The police discovered illegal books in the vehicle, and in a matter of hours five secret police escorted Kaminski to jail. A sociology and mathematics major one day, Kaminski was the next a political prisoner trying to adjust to a bizarre and dangerous new world. This remarkable book represents his attempts to understand that world. As a coping strategy until he won his freedom half a year later by faking serious illness, Kaminski took clandestine notes on prison subculture. Much later, he discovered the key to unlocking that culture--game theory. Prison first appeared an irrational world of unpredictable violence and arbitrary codes of conduct. But as Kaminski shows in riveting detail, prisoners, to survive and prosper, have to master strategic decision-making. A clever move can shorten a sentence; a bad decision can lead to rape, beating, or social isolation. Much of the confusion in interpreting prison behavior, he argues, arises from a failure to understand that inmates are driven not by pathological emotion but by predictable and rational calculations. Kaminski presents unsparing accounts of initiation rituals, secret codes, caste structures, prison sex, self-injuries, and of the humor that makes this brutal world more bearable. This is a work of unusual power, originality, and eloquence, with implications for understanding human behavior far beyond the walls of one Polish prison.

Book Being Church Behind Prison Walls

Download or read book Being Church Behind Prison Walls written by Karl Robinson and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-29 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being Church Behind Prison Walls: Survival Theology, Prisoners, and Policymakers By: Karl Robinson Being Church Behind Prison Walls: Survival Theology, Prisoners, and Policymakers is a survivalist practical ministry manifesto for incarcerated Black men, their families, and religious social policymakers. The book probes the question of what love looks like in a disgusting prison setting and demonstrates how religious and social policymakers can improve rehabilitation initiatives. Readers will be inspired to think about prison reform in fresh ways using the Centered Prayer model, religious imagination and self-help initiatives rooted in historical memory.

Book Economic Games   Dis honesty and Trust

Download or read book Economic Games Dis honesty and Trust written by Nikolaos Georgantzis and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Race  Incarceration  and American Values

Download or read book Race Incarceration and American Values written by Glenn C. Loury and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2008-08-22 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why stigmatizing and confining a large segment of our population should be unacceptable to all Americans. The United States, home to five percent of the world's population, now houses twenty-five percent of the world's prison inmates. Our incarceration rate—at 714 per 100,000 residents and rising—is almost forty percent greater than our nearest competitors (the Bahamas, Belarus, and Russia). More pointedly, it is 6.2 times the Canadian rate and 12.3 times the rate in Japan. Economist Glenn Loury argues that this extraordinary mass incarceration is not a response to rising crime rates or a proud success of social policy. Instead, it is the product of a generation-old collective decision to become a more punitive society. He connects this policy to our history of racial oppression, showing that the punitive turn in American politics and culture emerged in the post-civil rights years and has today become the main vehicle for the reproduction of racial hierarchies. Whatever the explanation, Loury argues, the uncontroversial fact is that changes in our criminal justice system since the 1970s have created a nether class of Americans—vastly disproportionately black and brown—with severely restricted rights and life chances. Moreover, conservatives and liberals agree that the growth in our prison population has long passed the point of diminishing returns. Stigmatizing and confining of a large segment of our population should be unacceptable to Americans. Loury's call to action makes all of us now responsible for ensuring that the policy changes.

Book Violence in Pursuit of Health

Download or read book Violence in Pursuit of Health written by Landon Kuester and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a unique examination of how violence is situationally induced and reproduced for those inmates living with HIV in a US State prison system. Imprisonment is the only space where Americans have a constitutional right to healthcare but findings from this research suggest that accessing this care and associated welfare benefits requires some degree of violence. This book documents how HIV-positive inmates went about achieving agency through harm to their bodies and social standing to improve their health and wellbeing, in prison and upon re-entry to the community. It focusses on ethnographic research which was carried out in seven penal facilities in New England and comprises of accounts from inmates, prison staff, healthcare providers, ex-offenders, and community social workers. This book speaks to academics interested in prisons, violence, health, and ethnographic research, and to policy makers.

Book The New Jim Crow

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michelle Alexander
  • Publisher : The New Press
  • Release : 2020-01-07
  • ISBN : 1620971941
  • Pages : 434 pages

Download or read book The New Jim Crow written by Michelle Alexander and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly‚ Slate‚ Chronicle of Higher Education‚ Literary Hub, Book Riot‚ and Zora A tenth-anniversary edition of the iconic bestseller—"one of the most influential books of the past 20 years," according to the Chronicle of Higher Education—with a new preface by the author "It is in no small part thanks to Alexander's account that civil rights organizations such as Black Lives Matter have focused so much of their energy on the criminal justice system." —Adam Shatz, London Review of Books Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the winner of numerous prizes, including the prestigious NAACP Image Award; and it has spent nearly 250 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Most important of all, it has spawned a whole generation of criminal justice reform activists and organizations motivated by Michelle Alexander's unforgettable argument that "we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it." As the Birmingham News proclaimed, it is "undoubtedly the most important book published in this century about the U.S." Now, ten years after it was first published, The New Press is proud to issue a tenth-anniversary edition with a new preface by Michelle Alexander that discusses the impact the book has had and the state of the criminal justice reform movement today.

Book Inmate Manipulation Decoded

Download or read book Inmate Manipulation Decoded written by Anthony Gangi and published by Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print US. This book was released on 2020-12-26 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inmate manipulation is a slow and subtle game. It's a game that leaves many correctional staff without a job and possibly in prison. Understanding how the game works is essential to surviving a career in corrections.This book will take you down a path that will highlight how an inmate chooses their target, how the game is employed, and most importantly, how staff can defend themselves. The game of inmate manipulation has evolved and the strategies are more complex than ever before. Correctional staff must be made aware that at any moment they can be chosen as a target. They must remember that the game is real and so are the consequences.

Book Incarceration

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gambol Entertainment Incorporated
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1 pages

Download or read book Incarceration written by Gambol Entertainment Incorporated and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Time Game

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  • Author : Anthony J. Manocchio
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1972
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book The Time Game written by Anthony J. Manocchio and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this survey of prison life, a prisoner and a prison psychologist each gives his own view of the same events.

Book Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology

Download or read book Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bible Games and Activities for Inmates

Download or read book Bible Games and Activities for Inmates written by Erin Roys and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-03-29 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inmates usually only get about 45 to 60 minutes for a Bible study period. These games and activities are designed to provide an alternative to the normal Bible study and to make learning about the content of the Bible memorable and fun! Each of these activities are designed for either individual or group fun. The first few are quick and easy and the rest can take up to an hour or longer to complete! Instructions are provided at the beginning of each activity. Answers are provided at the end of the book. So put on your thinking cap and get ready for some laughs and learning!

Book Dietzen V  Mork

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 110 pages

Download or read book Dietzen V Mork written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Incarceration Nations

Download or read book Incarceration Nations written by Baz Dreisinger and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baz Dreisinger travels behind bars in nine countries to rethink the state of justice in a global context Beginning in Africa and ending in Europe, Incarceration Nations is a first-person odyssey through the prison systems of the world. Professor, journalist, and founder of the Prison-to-College-Pipeline, Dreisinger looks into the human stories of incarcerated men and women and those who imprison them, creating a jarring, poignant view of a world to which most are denied access, and a rethinking of one of America’s most far-reaching global exports: the modern prison complex. From serving as a restorative justice facilitator in a notorious South African prison and working with genocide survivors in Rwanda, to launching a creative writing class in an overcrowded Ugandan prison and coordinating a drama workshop for women prisoners in Thailand, Dreisinger examines the world behind bars with equal parts empathy and intellect. She journeys to Jamaica to visit a prison music program, to Singapore to learn about approaches to prisoner reentry, to Australia to grapple with the bottom line of private prisons, to a federal supermax in Brazil to confront the horrors of solitary confinement, and finally to the so-called model prisons of Norway. Incarceration Nations concludes with climactic lessons about the past, present, and future of justice.

Book Down Time

Download or read book Down Time written by David P. Novak and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: