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How American-Based Television Commercials Portray Convicts, Correctional Officials, Carceral Institutions, And The Prison Experience, Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D. Dec 2017

How American-Based Television Commercials Portray Convicts, Correctional Officials, Carceral Institutions, And The Prison Experience, Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D.

Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D.

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The Challenges Of Conducting Research On Supermax Prisons: Results From A Survey Of Scholars Who Conduct Research On This Type Of Correctional Facility, Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D., Richard Tewksbury Dec 2017

The Challenges Of Conducting Research On Supermax Prisons: Results From A Survey Of Scholars Who Conduct Research On This Type Of Correctional Facility, Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D., Richard Tewksbury

Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D.

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Interpreting The Development And Growth Of Convict Criminology In South America, Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D., Sacha Darke Dec 2017

Interpreting The Development And Growth Of Convict Criminology In South America, Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D., Sacha Darke

Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D.

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Reconsidering Incarceration: New Directions For Reducing Crime, Don Stemen Oct 2017

Reconsidering Incarceration: New Directions For Reducing Crime, Don Stemen

Don Stemen

Little empirical study had been done to confirm or refute the effectiveness of incarceration in reducing crime rates when America began its historic reliance on prisons in the 1970s. Today, conversely, policymakers are faced with a large, complex, and sometimes contradictory body of research. This paper seeks to help officials make sense of this information and offers an up-to-date understanding of what works best. It also examines research on several of the other factors that might be developed as part of an expanded notion of public safety. Informed by this more inclusive understanding of current research, it suggests that effective …

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Misidentified And Misunderstood: Extremists And Extremist Groups Incarcerated In U.S. Correctional Facilities, Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D. Dec 2013

Misidentified And Misunderstood: Extremists And Extremist Groups Incarcerated In U.S. Correctional Facilities, Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D.

Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D.

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How Canada Built Its Supermax Prisons, Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D. Dec 2012

How Canada Built Its Supermax Prisons, Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D.

Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D.

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Distinguished Historical Geography Lecture: Carceral Space And The Usable Past, Karen M. Morin Dec 2012

Distinguished Historical Geography Lecture: Carceral Space And The Usable Past, Karen M. Morin

Karen M. Morin

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Debunking The Myths Of American Corrections, Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D. Dec 2011

Debunking The Myths Of American Corrections, Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D.

Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D.

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Reflections And Perspectives On Reentry And Collateral Consequences, Michael Pinard Oct 2011

Reflections And Perspectives On Reentry And Collateral Consequences, Michael Pinard

Michael Pinard

This essay addresses the continued and dramatic increase in the numbers of individuals released from correctional institutions and returning to communities across the United States. It provides a brief history of the collateral consequences of criminal convictions, and the ways in which these consequences impede productive reentry. It then highlights national and state efforts to address to persistent reentry obstacles and to better understand the range and scope of collateral consequences. It concludes by offering suggestions for reform.

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Analyzing Contemporary Introductory Textbooks On Correctional Administration/Management/Organization: A Content Analysis, Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D. Dec 2007

Analyzing Contemporary Introductory Textbooks On Correctional Administration/Management/Organization: A Content Analysis, Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D.

Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D.

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Supermax Prisons, Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D. Dec 2006

Supermax Prisons, Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D.

Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D.

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What Is The New School Of Convict Criminology?, Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D., Stephen C. Richards Dec 2002

What Is The New School Of Convict Criminology?, Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D., Stephen C. Richards

Jeffrey Ian Ross Ph.D.

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Managed Health Care In Prisons As Cruel And Unusual Punishment, Ira P. Robbins Dec 1998

Managed Health Care In Prisons As Cruel And Unusual Punishment, Ira P. Robbins

Ira P. Robbins

INTRODUCTION:

Billy Roberts, a prisoner in an Alabama state prison, had a history of severe psychiatric disorders. He was often put on suicide watch, and received large doses of psychotropic drugs. A managed health care company, Correctional Medical Services (CMS), was responsible for the health care at the prison. After Roberts had a suicidal episode, CMS's statewide mental health care director reportedly put Roberts in an isolation cell rather than a psychiatric care unit. The mental health care director also ordered that Roberts' medication be discontinued pursuant to an alleged policy of CMS to get as many prisoners off psycho- …

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Legal Aspects Of Prison Riots, Ira P. Robbins Dec 1981

Legal Aspects Of Prison Riots, Ira P. Robbins

Ira P. Robbins

Introduction: Riots are a recurrent phenomenon in American prisons. In the 1950s and the early 1970s, major riots erupted in prisons across the country, and many have occurred in the past several years.' Riots will continue to occur as long as the dominant function of prisons is the custodial confinement of inmates. As one commentator explains, "The way to make a strong bomb is to build a strong perimeter and generate pressure inside. Similarly, riots occur where ... pressures and demands are generated in the presence of strong custodial confinement."

When such a bomb detonates and a prison riot erupts, …

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