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Michelle Butler

Researcher at Queen's University Belfast

Publications -  42
Citations -  354

Michelle Butler is an academic researcher from Queen's University Belfast. The author has contributed to research in topics: Prison & Imprisonment. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 39 publications receiving 286 citations. Previous affiliations of Michelle Butler include Mitchell Institute & University of Cambridge.

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Self-governing prisons: Prison gangs in an international perspective

TL;DR: The authors found qualified support for the use of Skarbek's (2011, 2014) governance theory to understand the emergence of prison gang-like groups in Kyrgyzstan, Northern Ireland and Brazil.
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The Impact of Disrespect on Prisoners’ Aggression: Outcomes of Experimentally Inducing Violence Supportive Cognitions

TL;DR: Self-report research suggests that much violence is triggered by perceived insults and disrespect as mentioned in this paper, which may be particularly true in the context of a prison or another environment of acute deprivati...
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Reconsidering Respect: Its Role in Her Majesty's Prison Service

TL;DR: It is argued that there needs to be a recognition of the nuances of meaning when the authors use the word respect and that ‘respect-as-consideration’ may be the form of respect most consistently achievable within interpersonal relationships in English and Welsh prisons.
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What are you Looking at?: Prisoner Confrontations and the Search for Respect

TL;DR: It is indicated that how an individual understands and constructs their self-narrative can influence their involvement in aggressive behaviour and implications for interventions attempting to reduce aggression are explored.
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Rethinking Prison Disciplinary Processes: A Potential Future for Restorative Justice

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present findings from a study of prison discipline in four U.K. prisons and suggest that in their current form such disciplinary proceedings are viewed by prisoners as lacking in legitimacy.