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Release and adjustment: perspectives from studies of wrongly convicted and politically motivated prisoners

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The article was published on 2005-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 38 citations till now.

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Children of Prisoners: Interventions and mitigations to strengthen mental health

TL;DR: In this article, a systematic review synthesized empirical evidence on the associations between parental incarceration and children's later behavioural, educational, and health outcomes from 40 studies involving a total of over 7,000 children of prisoners.
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Sport and physical activity in a high security Spanish prison: an ethnographic study of multiple meanings.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the multiple meanings given to the social practices of sport and physical activity in a high security Spanish prison and provided details of the following key themes that emerged from the analysis: (a) escaping time; (b) perceived therapeutic benefits; (c) social control; (d) gendered dimensions; (e) performing masculinity.
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Is there a recognizable post-incarceration syndrome among released "lifers"?

TL;DR: It is suggested that post-incarceration syndrome constitutes a discrete subtype of PTSD that results from long-term imprisonment and recognition of the effects of incarceration and treatment among ex-inmates and ultimately, successful re-entry into society.
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Inside the Belly of the Penal Beast: Understanding the Experience of Imprisonment

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a framework which would enable this form of engagement and analysis, first providing an account of the development of the main components of the framework, before elaborating in more detail how its constituent parts, depth, weight, tightness, and breadth, might be conceptualised.
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Male prisoners’ family relationships and resilience in resettlement

TL;DR: Theories of social bonding and social capital support the argument that positive family relationships are important for resilience in resettlement after release from prison as mentioned in this paper, however, this topic has rarely been addressed in prospective longitudinal studies of resettlement processes.
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

TL;DR: Foucault shows the development of the Western system of prisons, police organizations, administrative and legal hierarchies for social control and the growth of disciplinary society as a whole as discussed by the authors.
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Acts of meaning

TL;DR: Jerome Bruner argues that the cognitive revolution has led psychology away from the deeper objective of understanding mind as a creator of meanings, and only by breaking out of the limitations imposed by a computational model of mind can be grasped.
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The measurement of pessimism: the hopelessness scale.

TL;DR: A scale designed to quantify hopelessness was administered to several diverse samples of patients to assess its psychometric properties and was found to have a high degree of internal consistency and showed a relatively high correlation with the clinical ratings of hopelessness and other self-administered measures of despair.
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