During the past 30 years, bureaucratic managerialism has reshaped how prison staff
maintain order. Policies and graduated disciplinary models have replaced coercive …

Purpose Professional boundary violations–intentional blurring, minimising or exploiting of
institutions' ethical and legal frameworks–have the potential to cause significant harm to …

Justice, Crime, and Ethics, a leading textbook in criminal justice programs, examines ethical
dilemmas pertaining to the administration of criminal justice and professional activities in the …

Purpose The targeted use of standardized outcome measures (SOMs) of mental health in
research with older adults who are incarcerated promotes a common language that enables …

The breach of professional boundaries by correctional staff involves various transgressive
behaviors and improper relationships with incarcerated individuals. Extant literature has …

Objectives: To examine whether the likelihood of guilty dispositions and the manner of
sanctioning prison misconduct differs across racial/ethnic groups, with emphasis on …

In this study, we draw on theories of opportunity and focal concerns to examine how mental
illness and race correspond to correctional staff-involved violence, particularly within the …

Purpose Recent research on police misconduct has adopted a network perspective, while
recent work on correctional officer (CO) use of force has similarly framed it as an …

Most studies of crime reporting examine decisions to report to the police in community
settings. While informative, this focus leaves a gap in identifying the correlates of official …

Much research exists on the role of correctional staff on the carceral experience, but less
work examines how staff influence post-release behavior among those previously …