RT Article
T1 The Contemporary Salience of Deprivation Theory: Prison Personnel Perceptions of Inmates and the Pains of Solitary Confinement
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 67
IS 3
SP 399
OP 430
A1 Aranda-Hughes, Vivian
A2 Mears, Daniel P. 1966-
A2 Brown, Jennifer M.
A2 Pesta, George B.
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1745560572
AB In recent decades, long-term solitary confinement has become a mainstay of prison systems. Critiques and research of this confinement typically have focused on its potential harms. Few studies have examined the range of harms to those placed in it; fewer still have examined solitary confinement’s potential benefits or sought insight from those who work with them. Guided by Sykes’ deprivation theory, we draw on focus groups and interviews with 144 correctional personnel to examine their perceptions of incarcerated individuals’ experiences with, and responses to, deprivations of solitary confinement. We show that staff view the pains of imprisonment as potentially increasing or decreasing in solitary confinement and that they view incarcerated persons as adapting to such confinement in different ways.
K1 Corrections
K1 Restrictive housing
K1 solitary confinement
K1 Supermax
DO 10.1177/0011128720974310