Deprivation Model: An Individual's Response To Collaboration

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The deprivation model asserts that deprivations( losses of liberties) experienced in prisons are the main influence on an individual’s response to incarceration. According to Sykes (1958), five main pains (or losses) result from imprisonment.
1. Liberty and freedoms available to those not incarcerated
2. Goods and services, ranging from choosing a grocery store to picking a mechanic
3. Heterosexual relationships with men and women of individual’s choice
4. Autonomy and self sufficiency
5. Security and protection from harm.
The second theoretical frame of though, the importation model, suggest the inmates bring in norms, values, and beliefs held prior to incarceration, and this transference of prior ideals influences their behavior (Irwin