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 article examines the effectiveness of three theoretical models (deprivation, importation,
and situational) in explaining violent incidents, incidents against correctional staff, and …

Identifying both individual and environmental effects on inmate misconduct is important for
the protection of staff and inmates as well as for the effectiveness of facility programming …

The United States prison population is becoming more diverse and comprised of
increasingly more violent inmates. Although race has been cited as a risk factor for inmate …

Using data on 208 male, former inmates in a midwestern state, the current study extended
the importation/deprivation debate by developing an integrated model of prison offending …

The importation model is a venerable theoretical explanation for inmate misconduct but it
has not been extended in nearly 50 years. The current study advances a life course …

Rates of disciplinary misconduct and violence among juvenile male inmates (N= 703)
admitted to a state prison system from 1998 to 2002 are retrospectively examined. The …

Importation and deprivation theories are typically offered to explain the process by which
inmates adjust to prison environments. Nearly all prior empirical tests of these theories have …

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

Drawing from micro-and macro-level theories of social control, the authors examined inmate
and facility effects on the prevalence of assaults and nonviolent rule infractions committed by …