Prison victimization a. The four types of prison victimization are physical, economic, psychological, and social. These types of victimization can be perpetrated by inmates against other inmates, by inmates against staff, or by staff against inmates. Physical violence is more common in today's prisons that in prisons of the past. Instances of economic victimization occur in the prison's sub-rose economy when inmates commit theft, robbery, fraud, extortion, etc. against one another.
Psychological victimization refers to manipulation tactics and mental games which occur in prison.
Such victimization results in considerable stress. Johnson, Irwin, and Heffernan on inmate adjustment a. According to Robert Johnson, some inmates enter what Johnson describes as the public domain of prison culture. This domain is dominated by predatory, violent, state-raised convicts. In particular, women's prisons often have less stringent security measures, are less violent, and are characterized by pseudo-family structures that help the inmates cope.