Since the publication of The Prison Community (Clemmer, 1940) virtually thousands of
books and articles have been published on prison life and the adjustment of prisoners to …

Nearly half a century after Brown v. Board of Education, the historic Supreme Court decision
that outlawed racially segregated public schools, the issue of race relations in the United …

Scholarly research on the diffusion of policies across state governments focuses
predominantly on the pathways of information between the states. Absent from this research …

The first edition of this book was written while I was a senior parole officer with the New York
State Division of Parole. The second edition was developed during my first full-time teaching …

In Addicted to Incarceration, author Travis C. Pratt uses an evidence-based approach to
explore the consequences of what he terms America's" addiction to incarceration." …

From its inception in the 1820s, the American prison was meant to be more than a sturdy
cage of high, thick, stone walls in which the wayward could be restrained. The prison's …

Over the past two decades, the ideology ostensibly governing correctional policy has been
transformed, it is claimed, from liberal‐rehabilitative to conservative‐punitive. Little empirical …

Interpersonal conflict and major misconducts indicative of aggressive behavior were
examined as a function of age for a homogeneous set of prison inmates. In contrast to …

During the last four decades, Chinese criminology has grown steadily but modestly. One
consensus is the lack of a clear understanding of the relationship between criminology and …

We estimate the impact of determinate sentencing laws (DSLs) on prison commitments,
prison populations, and Uniform Crime Report crime rates. Ten states enacted these laws …