Discuss the five pains of incarceration. What factors affect the degree to which inmates experience these pains? Which strategies have been shown to mitigate these effects? Why do you think these strategies are or are not effective?
What will be an ideal response?
Deprivation of autonomy: inmates give up complete control over their lives and are “subject[ed] to a vast body of rules and commands that are designed to control.”
Deprivation of goods and services: inmates lose access to goods and services accessible in the world at large. In Sykes’ words, “The average inmate finds himself in a harshly Spartan environment which he defines as painfully depriving.”
Deprivations of liberty: inmates lose certain civil rights, such as the right to vote in some states.
Deprivations of heterosexual relationships: inmates lose physical and psychological relationships with their significant others.
Deprivation of security: inmates live in a seemingly unsafe environment.
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What will be an ideal response?
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a. True b. False
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