Prison violence in America / [edited by] Michael C. Braswell, Reid H. Montgomery, Jr., Lucien X. Lombardo.

Other author Braswell, Michael.
Other author Montgomery, Reid H.
Other author Lombardo, Lucien X.
Format Book
Edition2nd ed.
Publication InfoCincinnati, OH : Anderson Pub. Co., ©1994.
Descriptionxi, 426 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects
Prison violence--United States.
Prison riots--United States.

Contents Reflections on the experience of prison violence. Letter to Fay / George Jackson -- Violence from without and within : safety / Hans Toch -- Empty bars : violence and the crisis of meaning in prison / Peter Scharf -- Reexamining the cruel and unusual punishment of prison life / James Bonta & Paul Gendreau -- Interpersonal violence. Inmate-on-inmate violence. Scenes of violence / Mark Fleisher -- Issues in prison sexual violence / Daniel Lockwood.
Contents The violent and victimized in the male prison / Kevin N. Wright -- Interpersonal violence. Correctional administration, staff, and prison violence. Political culture and staff violence : the case of Hawaii's prison system / Agnes L. Baro -- Rape in male prisons : examining the relationship between correctional officers' attitudes toward male rape and their willingness to respond to acts of rape / Helen M. Eigenberg -- The myth of humane imprisonment : a critical analysis of severe discipline in U.S. maximum security prisons, 1945-1990 / Mark S. Hamm ... [et al.].
Contents The supreme court and prison excessive use of force cases : does one test fit all? / Rolando V. del Carmen -- Assaults on prison officers : interactional themes / Stephen C. Light -- Collective violence and prison riots. American prison riots : 1774-1991 / Reid H. Montgomery, Jr. -- An "orgy of brutality" at Attica and the "killing ground" at Santa Fe : a comparison of prison riots / Sue Mahan -- Judicial reform and prisoner control : the impact of Ruiz v. Estelle on a Texas penitentiary / James W. Marquart & Ben M. Crouch.
Contents Stress, change, and collective violence in prison / Lucien X. Lombardo -- A typology of the causes of prison riots and an analytical extension to the 1986 West Virginia riot / Randy Martin & Sherwood Zimmerman -- Doing something about prison violence. A case study in regaining control of a violent state prison / J. Forbes Farmer -- Social climate and prison violence / Hans Toch -- The faces of corrections : selected case studies / Michael C. Braswell, Tyler Fletcher & Larry Miller.
Contents Letters of violence / Bo Lozoff & Michael C. Braswell -- Reporting from behind the walls : do it before the sirens wail / Frederick Talbott -- Moving into the new millennium : toward a feminist vision of justice / M. Kay Harris.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 95199272 93071747
ISBN0870840940

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks HV9025 .P959V 1994 ✔ Available Place Hold