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 …

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 …

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 …

Psychopathy as measured by the Hare Psychopathy Checklist—Revised (PCL–R; Hare,
1991, 2003) is related to a range of rule-breaking and antisocial behaviors. Given this …

Researchers have not yet devoted sufficient attention to the effect of prison architecture on
inmate misconduct. Using data from the population of male prisoners in Texas, the authors …

An experimental scale for the assessment of prison violence risk among maximum security
inmates was developed from a logistic regression analysis involving inmates serving parole …

Research Summary Although numerous studies have highlighted the negative
consequences of mass incarceration, life‐course and criminal career research has largely …

This article reviews and summarizes research on death row inmates. The contributions and
weaknesses of death row demographic data, clinical studies, and research based on …

Controversy surrounds the use of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist—Revised (Hare, 1991,
2003) in capital murder cases, where it has been introduced to support prosecution claims …

Abstract Although recent US Supreme Court decisions regarding the death penalty (eg,
Atkins v. Virginia, 2002) have renewed interest in mental health issues, one topic that has …