Incarcerated Interactions: A Theory-Driven Analysis of Applied Prison Communication

Erik Fritsvold & Jonathan Bowman, Editors

Incarcerated Interactions: A Theory-Driven Analysis of Applied Prison
Communication.

Peter Lang, Inc. New York, NY.

Incarcerated Interactions: A Theory-Driven Analysis of Applied Prison
Communication (ISBN: 978-1433134609, July 2016) is an innovative,
applied edited book that uses core interdisciplinary social science
theories to analyze and describe the social psychology and sociology of
communicative interactions amongst incarcerated individuals. Beginning
with the fundamentals of human interactions, this edited volume allows
scholars across a variety of disciplines (such as criminology,
sociology, communication studies, social psychology, anthropology, and
economics) to become familiar with and apply the core principles and the
requisite terminology of human communication within a criminological
context. Each of the four sections of the text not only build upon the
knowledge structures of previous chapters, but also function as
stand-alone analyses and/or applications of extant scholarship within
essential contexts. From a general discussion of core social science
theory to the specific application of that theory in a range of
scholarly contexts, this book addresses relevant issues such as mental
illness and wellness, the gendered experience of inmates, recidivism
rates, violence, the criminogenic effect of incarceration and the
large-scale implications of prison gangs and their associated cultural
influence, to name a few.