By Michael J. Lynch and W. Byron Groves

FROM THE COVER: “Marxist thought has profoundly affected the growth of modern criminology. The social and economic determinism in Marx heavily influenced Enrico Ferri, one of criminology's founding positivists. Today's positivists continue that tradition in their search for the sociological causes of crime. Yesterday's radicals, the positivists, have become today's traditionalists. And today's radicals once again proclaim Marx as their guide. This book demonstrates how today's Marxist criminologists have broadened their vision. In addition to crime causation, they examine the political and economic interests that influence the formation of law and justice. Power, alienation, capital and many other classic Marxist concepts have been revived and applied to a radical understanding of punishment, corrections, police and the administration of justice.

NY. Harrow and Heston. 1986. 131p.

By John Seymour

This dissertation explores the relationship between the environmental preferences and aversions of men in prison and the characteristics of prison subsettings perceived by prisoners as meeting such concerns. The relationship between a stressed prisoner and a perceived ameliorative feature in a subsetting is termed "niche". The study is concerned with the personal meanings that prisoners impose on prison settings, and with understanding the personal susceptibilities and setting characteristics that combine to produce such meanings….”

Albany. NY. State University of New York. Dissertation. 1980.

By Nancy Jean Smyth

FROM THE INTRODUCTION: “The purpose of this study is to examine the environmentcentered preferences of prison inmates who are at high risk of maladaptation, and to explore the relationship between these preferences and the inmates' adaptation to prison. The 33 male inmates in this study have all been identified at some juncture as having experienced some difficulty adapting to prison. In this case, all the inmates engaged in at least one parasuicide? during their incarceration. These inmates can be considered to be at high risk for future maladaptation in prison. Without assistance, some of these high risk inmates may adapt reasonably well to prison. However, it is likely that a portion of this group will experience some difficulties in adapting to prison. Through examining the adaptation of these high risk inmates as well as their concerns and preferences related to the environment, it was hoped that information would be discovered that would aid in the identification and treatment of those inmates at risk for continued maladaptation…Extreme, prolonged stress can create difficulties for many people; the prison environment is no exception to this…”

Albany. NY. Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy School of Social Welfare. 1990. 124p.

By Marc William Renzema

FROM THE ABSTRACT: “ABSTRACT

The anticipation of release from prison and the first months of parole long have been considered as stressful. Yet, past studies of this transition seldom have used the models and methods developed by psychologists and psychiatrists engaged in stress research. Guided by McGrath's (1970) model of the stress process, this dissertation explores the psychological stresses and supports experienced during the anticipation of release from prison and during the first 6 months after release. It also identifies adaptational strategies employed by parolees. This dissertation is based on interviews with a panel of 53 men released into a large metropolitan area from prisons in predominantly rural areas. Interviews were scheduled just prior to release and at 2 to 4 weeks, 3 months. and 6 months after release. Of the 212 interviews attempted, 172 were completed. Dach interview consisted of a focused segment. 22 psychophysiological syaptom questions derived from Langner (1962). and 20 fixed-response questions based on past studies of prison releases. Interviews were recorded and tratscribed. The focused segments were content analyzed for "concern" and "support" themes using categories derived from both past research and a 10% subsample of interview transcripts….”

Albany. NY. State University of New York. Dissertation. 1980. 336p.

By Irving A. Spergel

FROM THE PREFACE: “This book is an organizational approach to the problems of people living in the slums and inner areas of our large cities. It is concerned mainly with youth and delinquency; but the ideas, principles, and techniques for community action discussed in it are relevant to other social problems which afflict those trapped in the ghettoes. The point of view of the book is social work; at the same time a wide variety of perspectives of community problem solving is examined. New structures, strategies, and tactics have evolved from the anti-poverty programs, civil rights movement, black power struggles, new types of grass-roots organizing, and large scale social planning, but have not been fully explored for their possible use in social work practice. The present work does not pretend to prescribe an appropriate social work methodology to community work

Chicago. The University of Chicago Press.

By Barbara A. Rockell

FROM THE COVER: “ Barbara Rockell's beautifully readable book offers representative narratives of the careers of women who gravitate through the revolving doors of our jails. In these "bittersweet" accounts Rockell highlights heretofore neglected observations drawn from the lives of these women, such as the fact that one "witnesses] among them choice; rationality; and, more important, a great deal of resilience." Although Rockell's monograph includes painstaking reviews of the published scholarship in sociology, women's studies, and criminology, her perspective is both original and credible, and this combination makes her book not only a great read but a refreshing source of ideas and an indispensable addendum to the literature.” -Hans Toch, PhD, Distinguished Professor, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany

Washington, DC. American Psychological Association. 2008. 230.

By R. Emerson Dobash-Russell Dobash

FROM THE JACKET: “It is far more likely that a woman will be assaulted, raped, or killed by her husband than by a stranger. Yet a maltreated wife is left to struggle alone because of widespread be lies that the sanctity and privacy of marriage must not be intruded upon, that the husband has certain "rights," or that the woman her self may be at fault. This book thoroughly documents the fact that violence in the home is systematically and disproportionately directed against women, and it demonstrates that wife-beating is a form of the husband's control and domina• tion through a socially approved marital hierarchy. Unlike more narrow investigations of "domestic violence." it places the phenomenon of wife-beating firmly in its social and historical context. The authors make a case against patriarchy itself, and against its sup port in the helping professions, police, courtrooms, and hospitals.”

The authors give a grim but illuminating account of patriarchal beliefs and practices in Roman, Anglo Saxon, and American traditions that have supported the right of a husband to dominate and chastise his wife. (As recently as 1853, a reform-minded legislator found it necessary to propose to the English House of Commons that married women should be treated no worse than domestic animals.)…”

NY. Macmillan. 1979. 362p.

By Daniel Lockwood

FROM THE JACKET: “This is the first systematic inquiry into the causes and effects of male sexual aggression in prisons- a severe problem found in penal institutions. Based on extensive interviews with aggressors, victims and staff, Prison Serval Violence discusses such topics as the psychological impact of sexual threats and attacks on victims, victim selection, rates of victimization, target violence and staff handling of the problem.

NY. Elsevier. 1980. 175p.

By Anne Campbell

FROM THE JACKET: “Why are men more aggressive than women? To find out, psychologist and criminologist Anne Campbell listened to the voices of ordinary men and women, as well as people for whom aggression is a central fact of life--robbers and gang members. The answer, she argues, lies not only in biology or in child rearing but in how men and women form opinions about their own aggression. Women believe their aggression results from a loss of self-control, while men see their behavior as a means of gaining control over others. Daughters are deeply ashamed when they get angry, but sons learn to associate aggression with integrity, courage, and triumph.

Campbell shows how men's and women's different views of anger and restraint profoundly affect their actions--from rage in marriage to violence in the streets--and what this means for us all. The misreading of the meaning of aggression drives a wedge between the sexes, affecting everything from their ability to communicate with each other to the way that traditionally male-dominated spheres such as law or medicine pathologize and punish women's aggression.”

NY. Basic Books. 1993. 208p.

By Michael Sherman and Gordon Hawkins

FROM THE PREFACE: “"Don't look back," Satchel Paige advised, "something might be gaining on you." Yet, of necessity, this book regards the future by looking over its shoulder at the past. In any consideration of the social institution of imprisonment especially in any attempt to change it--the weight of history must be placed in the balance. The recentexcellent works of David Rothman, Michel Foucault, and Michael Ignatieff have confirmed the importance of a historical perspective on any era's policy prescriptions.

This is, however, explicitly a policy book. In Chapter 5, the analysis of the past is allowed to inform some recommendations which mesh liberal and conservative views. Although in some cases we have been driven back to original sources, this is not a work of primary social history in which lessons are inferred from a mass of detail. Ours is an idiosyncratic view of the constraints imposed by traditions on future choices, and its policy lessons are not shared by many of the historians on whose work we have tried to build.”

Chicago and London. The University of Chicago Press. 1981. 156p.

By Joycelyn M. Pollock-Byrne

FROM THE PREFACE: Through the Contemporary Issues in Crime and Justice Series, students are introduced to important topics that until now have been neglected or inadequately covered and that are relevant to criminal justice, criminology, law, political science, psychology. and sociology. The authors address philosophical and theoretical issues and analyze the most recent rescarch findings and their implications for practice. Consequendy, each volume will stimulate further thirking and debate on the topics it covers, in ad. dition to providing direction for the development and implementation of policy.

The topic of ethics has always been of critical importance to the field of criminal justice and criminology. Judging from recent reports of frequent ethical violations throughout the criminal justice system, this primer on morality, chics, and human behavior could not be more timely. The sensitivity and critical nature of the subject matter makes it secan surprising that greater attention has not been devoted to this topic. Since no similar text is currently available, this work represents the breaking of new ground, for which Joycelyn M. Pollock-Byrne is to be commended.

Pacific Grove, California. Brooks/Cole Publishing Company. 1989.

By Robert Johnson

FROM THE PREFACE: “Most Americans favor capital punishment. The reasons vary, but many proponents of the death penalty believe that executions prevent murder. Capital punishment, for them, is an antidote to homicide. Simple vengeance is enough for others, who insist that killers should suffer the ultimate penalty for their grievous crimes. A few adopt the pose of the cool, detached pragmatist. They contend that the death penalty pays its own way by eliminating hardened and unrepentant offenders. These dead men, however dangerous in life, commit no more crimes. Whatever the real or imagined merits of capital punishment, no rationale for the death penalty demands warehousing of prisoners under sentence of death. The punishment is death and nothing more. There is neither a mandate nor a justification for inhumane confinement prior to imposition of sentence. Yet warehousing for death, of an empty and sometimes brutal nature, is the universal fate of condemned prisoners. The enormous suffering caused by this human warehousing, rendered in the words of the prisoners themselves, is the subject of this book.”

Illinois. Waveland Press. 1981. 163p.

By Russell P. Dobash, R. Emerson Dobash and Sue Gutteridge

FROM CHAPTER 1; “The imprisonment of women in Britain and the United States today reflects the end product of a process that has its roots in early nineteenth-century British prisons. Confining women and men in prisons, asylums and workhouses was thought to be the best way of dealing with many of the problems that beset society including social unrest and crime. A prison was meant to be a world that would lead to physical discipline and moral transformation. From the very beginning, women in prison were treated differently from men, considered more morally depraved and corrupt and in need of special, closer forms of control and confinement. They became a pariah class, separate and distinct from the ideal, chaste and morally correct women of the Victorian era and this continues even today…”

Oxford. Basil Blackwell. 1986. 271p.

By Paul Saul David Berg.

“Some Measures Of Ego Syntonicity, Impulse Socialization And Perceptual Consistency.”

Dissertation Abstracts, 24(6), 2559. 1963. 106P.

By Lynne Zimmer

The hiring of women as guards in men’s prisons represents a major breakthrough in women’s efforts to achieve full sexual equality in the workplace. This dramatic social change has required great flexibility on the part of the women guards as well as substantial adjustments by their male counterparts, prison administrators, and the inmates themselves. In the first comprehensive study of this phenomenon, Lynn Zimmer examines the experiences of the women and men involved in the painful process of transition from a segregated to an integrated prison environment. Women Guarding Men is significant not only for its vivid depiction of their trials, but for its contribution to a general theory of women’s occupational and organizational behavior.

Chicago. Univ. Chicago Press. 1986. 278p.

By Fred Cohen

FROM THE INTRODUCTION OF VOLUME 1: “This book addresses the legal issues that affect the mentally disordered inmate. Charters 1 and 2 set out the boundaries of the problem and give an overview of the legal issues generally. Chapters 3 and 4 provide a broad review of the laws governing the legal identity and basic rights of prisoners, including the right to treatment where a serious medical need exists and how that right carries over to a serious mental disorder. Subsequent chapters address in greater detail the problems in these areas and the legal discussions and holdings pertaining to them. The chapters provide extensive citations to leading cases and specific guidance on the legal obligations and duties of those who supervise or treat mentally disordered inmates, the rights of the incarcerated mentally ill, and best policies and practices. Problems related to specific populations are treated in detail. For example, Chapter 20 covers juvenile detainees and inmates and the special situations to which their cases can give rise. Chapter 21 covers sexual predators, discussing among other things the legal complexities associated with the rise of sex offender treatment programs.

Kingston, NJ. Civic Research Institute. 2017.-2018.

By Michael S. Serrill

New Debate Over a Famous Prison Experiment. To most of its 950 inmates and 389 staff, the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk is a prison like many other prisons….But the facility is now old and is beginning to fray around the edges….”

Corrections Magazine. August 1982. 8p.

By Donald Reynolds

ABSTRACT: The object of this study was to ascertain if differences exist in perceptual responses of subjects rated as high or low In anti-Negro prejudlce. The equipment used wes an Eagel stereoscope; the technique was a modifled "method of limits” which held exposure tine constant while inorementally varying illumination In the stereoscopic frames.

An abstract of a thesis submitted to Michigan State Univeresity In partial sulfillaent of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS. Departsent of Payobology. 1962. 50p

By Hector Puig Arvelo

The study was designed to check the results obtained by Trier In teating eight hypotheses regarding job satiafaction among Michigan Industrial workers with the results obtained with Italian and Puerto Roan Industrial workers. The Itallan and Spanish translations of Trier's questionnaire were administered to 196 Italians and to 398 Puerto Ricans. The primary method of analysis coneiated of matching pairs of workers on all but one pertinent variable and computing the differences in satisfaction due to the variable. The variables included occupational status, income, company, age, sex, education, and father's occupational status. Questione on a Iikert type scale were aleo ueed to measure the worker's conception of how his family, friends, and neighbors perceive his job.

Phd. Dissertation. Michigan State University, 1959. 99p.

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By Laud Humphreys

FROM THE FOREWORD: “…We also learn about the impact of societal definitions, even on such a secret and anonymous activity as the tearoom. Humphreys shows us that the structure of interaction there is adapted to the proscribed nature of the conduct that takes place and to the threats of the outside world (police, wise teenagers, or unsuspecting passers-by). We discover that the highly constrained interaction within the tearoom is a function not only of the desires of the participants to limit their involvement but also of stigmatization of their activity. Activity in the tearooms is organized to make what is highly stigmatized seem matter of fact and taken for granted…”

Chicago. Aldine. 1970. 199p.