Purpose Inmate rule violations or “misconducts” reflect offending within a prison, and this
study involved a systematic review of studies of the causes/correlates of inmate misconduct …

At the end of 2010, prisons in the United States incarcerated over 1,605,127 inmates,
yielding an imprisonment rate of 497 per 100,000 residents (Guerino, Harrison, & Sabol …

Predictive policing is sweeping the nation, promising the holy grail of policing-preventing
crime before it happens. The technology has far outpaced any legal or political …

From random security checks at airports to the use of risk assessment in sentencing,
actuarial methods are being used more than ever to determine whom law enforcement …

The fifth edition of this highly praised study charts and explains the progress that continues
to be made towards the goal of worldwide abolition of the death penalty. The majority of …

of recidivism have been widely used in the United States to inform parole decisions since
the 1920s (Borden, 1928; Burgess, 1928). Of late, such forecasts are being proposed for a …

PURPOSE: This paper applies macro-micro General Strain Theory (GST) to predict prisoner
misconduct. It is hypothesized that prison-based strain will adversely affect inmates and …

A retrospective review was conducted of the 2003 disciplinary records of close-custody
inmates (N= 24,514) in the Florida Department of Corrections. The frequency of various …

This fifth edition of the first true textbook on the death penalty engages the reader with a full
account of the arguments and issues surrounding capital punishment. The book begins with …

The purpose of the book [is] to apprise the reader of the actual and potential uses of social
science in the American legal process and how those uses might be evaluated. We here …