List and Explain the Three Different Lifestyles or Styles of Adaptation

question 58

Essay

List and explain the three different lifestyles or styles of adaptation to prison life used by female prisoners that were identified by researcher Esther Heffernan.Also identify the new type of inmate that began arriving in women's prisons about 2 years ago and explain how this inmate type affected the social structure of women's prisons.

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Definitions:

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