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johnson, robert. and Dobrzanska, Ania. "Life with the Possibility of Life: Mature Coping among Life-sentence Prisoners" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Royal York, Toronto, Nov 15, 2005 <Not Available>. 2009-10-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p31858_index.html>

johnson, r. and Dobrzanska, A. , 2005-11-15 "Life with the Possibility of Life: Mature Coping among Life-sentence Prisoners" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Royal York, Toronto <Not Available>. 2009-10-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p31858_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Inmates who cope maturely in prison find incarceration to be a painful but constructive experience. This is particularly true for life-sentence prisoners, colloquially called lifers, a group generally defined to include offenders serving prison terms ranging from 25 years up to and including life without the possibility of parole. As a general matter, lifers come to see prison as their home and try to make the most of the limited resources available in prison; they establish daily routines that allow them to find meaning and purpose in their prison lives, lives that might otherwise seem empty and pointless. The resilience shown by lifers should not be construed as an argument for more or longer prison sentences or for more punitive regimes of confinement, but rather is a reminder that human beings can find meaning in adversity. Prisons are meant to be settings of adversity but should strive to accommodate the human needs of their inhabitants and to promote constructive changes in behavior.

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