Corrections: A Critical Approach, 3rd edition confronts mass imprisonment in the United
States, a nation boasting the highest incarceration rate in the world. This statistic is all the …

A. The Legal and Correctional Landscape in the Prelitigation Era .......................... 659 B.
Litigation's Impact on the Or Page 1 THE LEGACY AND FUTURE OF CORRECTIONS …

The first chapter introduces the topic of juvenile gangs, as it presents various definitions of
gangs and distinguishes among gangs, groups, and subcultures. Three chapters continue …

'This is among the handful of prison books-they include George Jackson's Soledad Brother
and BB Michael Ignatieff's A Just Measure of Pain-which moves and informs. The sociology …

The controversy over the behavioral and mental health consequences of confinement in
high-security prisons has its origins in penal policies dating to the early 19th century. The …

In this paper, I examine two explanatory models for prison violence. In the first, the crowding
model, violence is said to arise from the cognitive confusion and tension induced by …

Discussions of safety in prisons often emphasise the grossest forms of interpersonal
violence, such as murder and sexual assault. However, a focus on spectacular acts of …

The turmoil and prisoner violence that frequently follow court efforts to improve prison
conditions have been called the “paradox of reform,” in which the very process intended to …

Prison Gang Development: A Theoretical Model Page 1 Prison Gang Development: A
Theoretical Model Salvador Buentello* Robert S. Fong, Ph.D.** and Ronald E. Vogel, Ed.D …

This article tests the equal status contact hypothesis in the aftermath of desegregation in the
Texas prison system. This study uses ten years of inmate-on-inmate assault data and …