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Title:

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

Edition:

2nd ed.

Publisher:

Anderson Pub. Co.,

Copyright Date:

c1994

Description:

xi, 426 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Prison violence--United States.
Prison riots--United States.
Geweld.
Gevangenissen.

Other Authors:

Braswell, Michael.
Montgomery, Reid H.
Lombardo, Lucien X.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Issues in prison sexual violence / Daniel Lockwood. 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.
The myth of humane imprisonment : a critical analysis of severe discipline in U.S. maximum security prisons, 1945-1990 / Mark S. Hamm ... [et al.]. Helen M. Eigenberg -- 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.].
Judicial reform and prisoner control : the impact of Ruiz v. Estelle on a Texas penitentiary / James W. Marquart & Ben M. Crouch. 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.
The faces of corrections : selected case studies / Michael C. Braswell, Tyler Fletcher & Larry Miller. 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.
Moving into the new millennium : toward a feminist vision of justice / M. Kay Harris. 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.

ISBN:

9780870840944
0870840940

LCCN:

95199272

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)