Deprivation Model Analysis

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After reading the text by Siegal & Bartollas (2011), I have come to the conclusion that all four models play a role to some extent in current prison culture. Like our current workforce, we have four generations of people in the workforce, and in prison. We have people from the “Greatest Generation”, Baby Boomers, Gen Xers, and Millennials in the workforce as well as in prison. Each generation has their own unique qualities, needs, positive and negative characteristics, and influences. The Deprivation Model describes the prisoner’s attempt to adapt to the deprivations imposed by incarceration. To what extent this affects the culture of the prison appears to be at what stage in life the inmate enters prison. To some, prison may not be that