O'Connor Sarah, Bezeczky Zoe, Moriarty Yvonne, Kalebic Natasha, Taylor Pamela J
Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, UK.
Centre for Trials Research, College of Biomedical & Life Sciences, Cardiff University, UK.
BJPsych Bull. 2020 Aug;44(4):139-144. doi: 10.1192/bjb.2020.2.
To understand experience of early imprisonment in one prison under low staffing levels. A researcher, independent of the prison, interviewed each prisoner soon after reception and 3-4 weeks later. The first question of the second interview was: 'I'd like to start by asking you about your experience of the last 3-4 weeks in prison'. Data are verbatim answers to this. Narratives were brief, so responses from all 130 participants were analysed, using grounded theory methods.
The core experience was of 'routine' - characterised by repetitive acts of daily living and basic work, and little reference to life outside prison - generally resolved passively, towards boredom and 'entrapment'.
This 'routine' seems akin to the 'institutionalism' described in the end days of the 1960s' mental hospitals. In an earlier study of similar men at a similar stage of imprisonment, under higher staff:prisoner ratios, experience was initially more distressing, but resolved actively and positively, suggesting that staff loss may have affected rehabilitative climate.
为了解一所人员配备不足的监狱中囚犯早期监禁的体验。一名独立于该监狱的研究人员在囚犯入狱后不久及3 - 4周后对每名囚犯进行了访谈。第二次访谈的第一个问题是：“我想先问问你在监狱里过去3 - 4周的经历”。数据是对这个问题的逐字回答。叙述很简短，因此使用扎根理论方法对所有130名参与者的回答进行了分析。
核心体验是“例行公事”——其特点是日常生活和基础工作的重复行为，很少提及监狱外的生活——通常以消极方式化解，表现为无聊和“受困”。
这种“例行公事”似乎类似于20世纪60年代末精神病院末期所描述的“机构主义”。在早期一项针对处于类似监禁阶段的类似男性囚犯的研究中，在更高的工作人员与囚犯比例下，最初的体验更令人痛苦，但以积极主动的方式得到化解，这表明人员流失可能影响了改造氛围。
