Women's rates of imprisonment and incarceration in jails grew faster than men's rates during
the prison boom in the United States. Even during the recent period of modest decline in …

" Certainly, prisons are dangerous places that impact the communities as well as the lives of
inmates and those who work there. Over the last several years, prison gangs have made …

This theoretical contribution argues that the domination of Western knowledge in disaster
scholarship has allowed normative policies and practices of disaster risk reduction to be …

Research on the consequences of incarceration for inmates and ex-inmates, their families,
and their communities has proliferated in just the last 20 years. Yet little of this research has …

For six decades, scholars have relied on Erving Goffman's (1961) theory of total institutions
to understand prison culture. Viewing prisons as total institutions offers insights into role …

Understanding and Reducing Prison Violence considers both the individual and prison
characteristics associated with violence perpetration and violent victimization among both …

Race is arguably the single most troublesome and volatile concept of the social sciences in
the early 21st century. It is invoked to explain all manner of historical phenomena and …

The American incarceration rate, though recently stabilized, increased rapidly over the past
half century. Today, compared with the 1970s, more than five times as many people spend …

Prior research documents race and ethnicity as central to how individuals navigate the
social and physical space of prisons. Racial segregation persists as a feature of prison life …

Numerous articles and textbooks advise qualitative researchers on accessing “hard-to-
reach” or “hidden” populations. In this article, I compare two studies that I conducted with …