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About: Prison is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 25120 publications have been published within this topic receiving 470474 citations. The topic is also known as: jail & gaol.


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03 Jul 2008
TL;DR: Bourke as mentioned in this paper examines the nature of rape, drawing together the work of criminologists, sociologists and psychiatrists to analyse what drives the perpetrators of sexual violence, and demystifies the category of the rapist and revealing the specificities of the past.
Abstract: Joanna Bourke, author of the critically-acclaimed Fear, unflinchingly and controversially moves away from looking at victims to look at the rapists. She examines the nature of rape, drawing together the work of criminologists, sociologists and psychiatrists to analyse what drives the perpetrators of sexual violence. Rape - A History looks at the perception of rape, both in the mass media and the wider public, and considers the crucial questions of treatment and punishment. Should sexual offenders be castrated? Will Freud's couch or the behaviourists' laboratory work most effectively? Particular groups of offenders such as female abusers, psychopaths and exhibitionists are given special attention here, as are potentially dangerous environments, including the home, prison, and the military. By demystifying the category of the rapist and revealing the specificities of the past, Joanna Bourke dares to consider a future in which sexual violence has been placed outside the human experience.

153 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the prison violence records of inmates involved in street gangs, prison gangs and both types of gangs vis-a-vis chronic offenders and found that gang variables were significantly predictive of prison violence only in the full model when various types of gang membership (e.g. street, prison or both) were considered.
Abstract: The importation model posits that inmate behavior is primarily an extension of the assorted antisocial behaviors that criminal offenders develop in the community. Persons involved in gangs are viewed as especially at‐risk for prison misconduct. Using the official infraction records of 831 male inmates sampled from the southwestern USA, this study explored the prison violence records of inmates involved in street gangs, prison gangs and both types of gangs vis‐a‐vis chronic offenders. Negative binomial regression models indicated that gang variables were significantly predictive of prison violence only in the full model when various types of gang membership (e.g. street, prison or both) were considered. Overall, the effects of gang membership were smaller than some of the risk factors related to chronic offending, such as history of violence and prior confinement, and other controls such as race. Although investigations of prison violence and misconduct are rightfully and importantly moving toward explanat...

153 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors used meta-regression to test associations with general population suicide rates, incarceration rates, and prison-related factors (overcrowding, ratio of prisoners to prison officers or health care staff or education staff, daily spend, turnover, and imprisonment duration).

153 citations

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TL;DR: This paper examined recent changes in prison life and found that a serious deterioration in the quality of life has taken place inside California prisons, and that this change results from influences emanating from within the prison as well as from external factors.
Abstract: This article examines recent changes in prison life. Information collected from a series of in-depth interviews with a sample of California ex-prisoners suggests an important corrective both to the criminal justice literature and to those sociological accounts which have attempted to explain the culture of prison life. The interview data reveals that a serious deterioration in the quality of life has taken place inside California prisons, and that this change results from influences emanating from within the prison as well as from external factors.

152 citations

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11 Aug 2014
TL;DR: The First Civil Right: Protection from Lawless Racial Violence 2. Freedom from Fear: White Violence, Black Criminality, and the Ideological Fight for Law-and-Order 3. Policing the Great Society: Modernizing Law Enforcemen t and Rehabilitating Criminal Sentencing 4. The Era of Big Punishment: Mandatory Minimums, Communi ty Policing, and Death Penalty Bidding Wars 5.The Last Civil Right, Freedom from State-Sanctioned Racial Violence Appendix Tables Abbreviations in Notes Notes Index as discussed by the authors
Abstract: List of Figures and Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgements Abbreviations 1. The First Civil Right: Protection from Lawless Racial Violence 2. Freedom from Fear: White Violence, Black Criminality, _ and the Ideological Fight for Law-and-Order 3. Policing the Great Society: Modernizing Law Enforcemen t and Rehabilitating Criminal Sentencing 4. The Era of Big Punishment: Mandatory Minimums, Communi ty Policing, and Death Penalty Bidding Wars 5.The Last Civil Right: Freedom from State-Sanctioned Racial Violence Appendix Tables Abbreviations in Notes Notes Index

152 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20242
20231,347
20222,993
20211,071
20201,271
20191,247