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Special sensitivity? : the white-collar offender in prison
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ISBN: 1593326130 9781593326135 1593325827 9781593325824 Year: 2012 Publisher: El Paso, AR : LFB Scholarly Pub.,

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Despite recent increases in incarceration for white-collar offenders, little is known about their prison experiences or how they adjust to imprisonment. In the justice system a view has prevailed that white-collar offenders have a "special sensitivity" to imprisonment-that they are more susceptible to the pains of prison. Stadler explores this view to determine how white-collar inmates adjust to life in prison and whether they do so differently than street offenders. Evidence suggests that white-collar inmates are no more likely to experience negative prison adjustment than street offenders, a

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