Violence in California Prisons
Author : James Gilligan
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 28,99 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Prison violence
ISBN : 0756706807
Author : James Gilligan
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 28,99 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Prison violence
ISBN : 0756706807
Author : California. Department of Finance. Program Evaluation Unit
Publisher :
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 45,97 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Prison violence
ISBN :
Author : California. Board of Corrections
Publisher :
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 11,40 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Prison violence
ISBN :
Author : Commission on California State Government Organization and Economy
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 18,31 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Criminals
ISBN :
Author : California. Legislature. Joint Committee on Prison Construction and Operations
Publisher :
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 17,29 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Prison violence
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Author : California. Task Force to Study Violence
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 24,96 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Corrections
ISBN :
Author : University of Connecticut. Corrections Program
Publisher : Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 37,91 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Papers presented at a conference co-sponsored by the Corrections Program of the University of Connecticut and the Connecticut Dept. of Correction held May 30 to June 1, 1975, at the New England Center, Durham, N.H.
Author : William Richard Wilkinson
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 36,33 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0814210015
What do we know first-hand about prisons? We have accounts from many top administrators. There is a large literature of convict reports and memoirs. But we have almost no personal accounts written by the people who were engaged in the day-to-day work of guarding and keeping prison inmates. In Prison Work, former California prisons corrections officer William Richard Wilkinson candidly tells what it was like to try to handle problems that can arise in prison, from furnishing three meals a day to quelling a riot. Constructed around a series of interviews with Wilkinson, this book recounts his extensive experience with discipline problems, wrong-headed administrators, contraband, and escapes. Wilkinson's story presents a blunt, unabashed view of daily life in prison, including fascinating discussions of racial and religious conflict, gangs, and prison violence as well as the institutional culture and more human side of life as experienced by a prison employee. The duration of Wilkinson's career (1951-1981) saw the greatest change in the American prison system. He was responsible for implementing change on the level of the prison block. At the California Institution for Men in Chino, he started out under the inspiring leadership of one of the most famous reform figures in penology. At the California Medical Facility in Vacaville, he participated in one of the great prison experiments when medical officials ran a maximum security prison. And at Soledad, he experienced the reaction to earlier liberal policies. Over the years, he accumulated much wisdom concerning how to handle convicts-wisdom that still has importance for corrections workers. Book jacket.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 43,48 MB
Release : 2013-03-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309263646
The past 25 years have seen a major paradigm shift in the field of violence prevention, from the assumption that violence is inevitable to the recognition that violence is preventable. Part of this shift has occurred in thinking about why violence occurs, and where intervention points might lie. In exploring the occurrence of violence, researchers have recognized the tendency for violent acts to cluster, to spread from place to place, and to mutate from one type to another. Furthermore, violent acts are often preceded or followed by other violent acts. In the field of public health, such a process has also been seen in the infectious disease model, in which an agent or vector initiates a specific biological pathway leading to symptoms of disease and infectivity. The agent transmits from individual to individual, and levels of the disease in the population above the baseline constitute an epidemic. Although violence does not have a readily observable biological agent as an initiator, it can follow similar epidemiological pathways. On April 30-May 1, 2012, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Forum on Global Violence Prevention convened a workshop to explore the contagious nature of violence. Part of the Forum's mandate is to engage in multisectoral, multidirectional dialogue that explores crosscutting, evidence-based approaches to violence prevention, and the Forum has convened four workshops to this point exploring various elements of violence prevention. The workshops are designed to examine such approaches from multiple perspectives and at multiple levels of society. In particular, the workshop on the contagion of violence focused on exploring the epidemiology of the contagion, describing possible processes and mechanisms by which violence is transmitted, examining how contextual factors mitigate or exacerbate the issue. Contagion of Violence: Workshop Summary covers the major topics that arose during the 2-day workshop. It is organized by important elements of the infectious disease model so as to present the contagion of violence in a larger context and in a more compelling and comprehensive way.
Author : Kristine Levan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 21,12 MB
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 131707579X
Drawing on a range of research and media sources to provide an international perspective on the topic of prison violence, this book focuses on the impact of such violence on the individual both while he or she is incarcerated and upon his or her release from prison, as well as on society as a whole. With a special emphasis on comparisons of violence among incarcerated populations in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, Prison Violence: Causes, Consequences and Solutions explores the various systems that exist to combat the problem, whilst also considering public perceptions of offenders and punishment, as influenced by media and coverage of high-profile cases. Providing a comprehensive analysis of prison violence on national and international levels, this book examines the extent of the problem, theoretical understandings of the issue and concrete solutions designed to prevent and handle such violence. As such, it will be of interest to policy makers as well as scholars of sociology, criminology and penology.