In this article, the authors reflect on the lessons of their Stanford Prison Experiment, some 25
years after conducting it. They review the quarter century of change in criminal justice and …

Three-year-old Kwara'ae children in Oceania act as caregivers of their younger siblings, but
in the UK, it is an offense to leave a child under age 14 ears without adult supervision. In the …

The first comprehensive work to turn a “queer eye” on the criminal justice system, providing
an eye-opening study of LGBTQ+ rights and equality. Drawing on years of research …

This paper examines the unique set of psychological changes that many prisoners are
forced to undergo in order to survive the prison experience. It argues that, as a result of …

This article summarizes some of the negative psychological effects of imprisonment. It
examines the psychological stressors—dehumanization, deprivation, and danger—to which …

This ethnographic research, conducted in a parole field office in central California, looks at
how Feeley and Simon's (1992)“new penology” paradigm plays out at the level of …

In a sense, this chapter does not fit well in the frame of this book on Milgram's paradigmatic
research on obedience to authority. It is less about extreme forms of interpersonal …

This study extends the risk factors model of background or social history analysis to the lives
of incarcerated mothers. Interviews were conducted with a sample of incarcerated mothers …

This study links two previously unrelated lines of research: the lack of comprehension of
capital penalty-phase jury instructions and discriminatory death sentencing. Jury-eligible …

This essay develops a simple thesis: To ensure its viability, the system of death sentencing
in the United States depends on the creation of an extraordinary set of psychological …