have become destructive and alienating. This occurs while other segments of the population, notably large corporations, continue to profit from these systems of abuse and punishment. Perhaps the most patent examples of this are the private prison system and the pharmaceutical industry, both of which...
PRISON policyJUDGESCORRECTIONAL institutionsCRIMINOLOGYSOCIAL controlAs criminal justice actors increasingly seek to rely on more evidence-informed practices, including risk assessment instruments, they often lack adequate information about the evidence that informed the development of the practice or the tool....
Discipline and punish: The birth of the prison. Frois, Catarina. 2013. Peripheral vision: Politics, technology, and surveillance. New York: Berghahn Books. ———. 2019. "Video-surveillance and the political use of discretionary power in the name of security and defence." In Spaces of ...
13-15 However, the true effect of incarceration on life expectancy in the US has been difficult to measure. Studies have documented the increased mortality rates of individuals recently released from prison or jail, particularly due to drug overdose,16,17 but few have examined long-term mortality...
Solitary confinement is a widespread practice in US correctional facilities. Long-standing concerns about the physical and mental health effects of solitary confinement have led to litigation, legislation, and community activism resulting in many prison
The most severe punishments, including the death penalty and life in prison, are reserved for cases in which the victim dies. In 1972, Franklin Zimring published a seminal article that challenged the belief that the outcome of the shooting was primarily determined by the intent of the shooter....
Thinking seriously about crime: Some models of criminology Crime is a subject of perennial interest, and in recent years it has once again become a topic of major public debate. We are likely to encounter the 'conv... J Young 被引量: 19发表: 1981年 Theory and Social Psychology `Could ce...
historically one of the fastest growing and increasingly diverse states in the nation, and one of thirteen US states to prosecute minor traffic violations as criminal misdemeanors rather than civil infractions. Drawing on legislative histories, we find that state legislators in Nevada increased fines ...
Criminology has historically promoted positivism, a disciplinary orientation producing reward structures for some researchers committed to deductive work rooted in developing concepts, hypothesizing relationships, and empirical testing. Its is useful, then, to review where such tendencies w...
The purpose of this article is to examine the growth of the Greenlandic institutions; who it is that populates the Greenlandic institutions; life in the institutions; and the position of the institutional sentence in society, as well as how the institution differs from prison.Annemette Nyborg...