Prison Journal articles from December 1998

Prison Journal archives from December 1998

Long-term rearrest rates in a sample of adjudicated delinquents: evaluating the impact of alternative programs.
December 1, 1998... An increasing number of juveniles are being held in public correctional facilities. The 1-day count of juveniles held in public facilities rose 47.0% from 1983 to 1995 (Sickmund, Snyder, & Poe-Yamagata, 1997). Earlier reports showed that the...

Rehabilitation, recidivism, and realism: evaluating violence reduction programs in prison.
December 1, 1998... There has been growing interest in recent years in developing more appropriate and effective responses to those people who are convicted of violent crimes. A politically popular and increasingly widespread reaction on both sides of the...

California's inmate classification system: predicting inmate misconduct.
December 1, 1998... Most correctional agencies have a formal process for classifying inmates' or parolees' levels of risk. This risk usually reflects the risk of an inmate escaping or participating in some type of dangerous or self-destructive behavior. Interest...

Family and neighborhood violence: predictors of depressive symptomatology among incarcerated youth.
December 1, 1998... Each year, thousands of U.S. youth are incarcerated in training schools and other types of facilities for delinquent juveniles. Research on the psychosocial backgrounds of incarcerated youth has shown a high rate of exposure to violence in...

The Hillsborough County, Florida, Juvenile Assessment Center: a prototype.
December 1, 1998... Juvenile assessment centers (JACs) or community assessment centers (Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention [OJJDP], 1996) are essentially screening and classification programs that assess the nature and extent of risks to and...

The symbolic ownership of the corrections 'problem': a framework for understanding the development of corrections policy in the United States.
December 1, 1998... As of June 1997, nearly 1.7 million men and women (or one of every 155 residents) were incarcerated in the nation's jails and prisons (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1998), and the business of incarceration still appears to be "booming"...

A typology of the frivolous: varying meanings of frivolity in section 1983 prisoner civil rights litigation.
December 1, 1998... Prisoners have been filing civil lawsuits in greater numbers each year over the last three decades. This litigation by prisoners has received significant attention by the media and in academic circles. But as Thomas (1988) has stated, "the...