This review examined the interactions between the correctional system and the health of urban populations. Cities have more poor people, more people of color, and higher crime rates than suburban and rural areas; thus, urban populations are overrepresented in the nation's jails and prisons. As a result, US incarceration policies and programs have a disproportionate impact on urban communities, especially black and Latino ones. Health conditions that are overrepresented in incarcerated populations include substance abuse, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and other infectius diseases, perpetration and victimization by violence, mental illness, chronic disease, and reproductive health problems. Correctional systems have direct and indirect effects on health. Indirectly, they influence family structure, economic opportunities, political participation, and normative community values on sex, drugs, and violence. Current correctional policies also divert resources from other social needs. Correctional systems can have a direct effect on the health of urban populations by offering health care and health promotion in jails and prisons, by linking inmates to community services after release, and by assisting in the process of community reintegration. Specific recommendations for action and reseach to reduce the adverse health and social consequences of current incarceration policies are offered.

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Jails, prisons, and the health of urban populations: a review of the impact of the correctional system on community health.

The key thesis in Hubbard’s paper ‘Accommodating Otherness: anti-asylum centre protest and the maintenance of white privilege’ is that racial dimensions of opposition to asylum seekers centres are part of cultural NIMBY ism. This connection of complex issues with an invalid concept obscures our understanding of the role of ‘otherness’ in facility siting discussions. The deconstruction of the contested NIMBY concept is illustrated by a brief review of wind power, which was mentioned as a field in which ‘otherness’ had not been incorporated.

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Invalid theory impedes our understanding: A critique on the persistence of the language of NIMBY

Studies of prison violence typically focus either on individual-level aggression or large-scale collective acts. Most past work consists of case studies, limiting the generalizations from the results. The present study used data from 371 state prisons and measures of both individual and collective violence and attempted to identify the structural, managerial, and environmental determinants of prison disorder. Findings suggest that poor prison management is a predictor of rates of assault toward inmates and staff. However, the likelihood of prison riots is largely independent of structural, managerial, and environmental factors. The article also discusses the implications for public policy.

The Roots of Prison Violence: A Test of the Deprivation, Management, and “Not-So-Total” Institution Models

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Prevention and control of infections with hepatitis viruses in correctional settings

Hard Time: Understanding and Reforming the Prison

In recent decades, prison populations and prison construction both have increased dramatically bringing issues related to prison siting to the forefront. Although the Not in My Backyard (NIMBY) syn...

Public Response to Prison Siting Perceptions of Impact on Crime and Safety

This article examines the literature on prison riots and integrates many of the prior conceptualizations of their causes by advancing a typology of explanatory models. This typology classifies prior explanations for riots into six subcategories: environmental conditions, spontaneity, conflict, collective behavior/social control, power vacuum, and rising expectations. Next we examine the 1986 riot at the West Virginia State Penitentiary, using an integrated conceptual structure that draws on several of these subcategories. Finally, we examine the utility of the typology by comparing the West Virginia riot with those which occurred at Attica and Santa Fe. The analysis makes clear that none of the individual models in the typology provides an adequate single explanation for these riots. Indeed, meaningful explanations about prison riots seem to require elements from most of the models in the typology. This finding suggests the need for more integrative approaches in the study of prison riots.

A typology of the causes of prison riots and an analytical extension to the 1986 West Virginia riot

Aids knowledge and risk perceptions among Pennsylvania prisoners

Recent increases in prison populations and growth in prison construction have brought issues related to prison siting to the forefront. Although the NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) syndrome is often di...

Community Member Reactions to Prison Siting: Perceptions of Prison Impact on Economic Factors

Anomie has been mainly characterized in criminology as a structural variable, and the most prominent application portrays it as being decidedly material in nature. This work explores a broadened co...

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Public Response to Prison Siting Perceptions of Impact on Crime and Safety

A typology of the causes of prison riots and an analytical extension to the 1986 West Virginia riot

Aids knowledge and risk perceptions among Pennsylvania prisoners

Community Member Reactions to Prison Siting: Perceptions of Prison Impact on Economic Factors

Anomie, Spirituality, and Crime: