The past few decades have seen an ideological shift to a more punitive attitude in policy and practice toward crime and criminal offenders. This study examined the orientation of local correctional officers toward inmates and worked with inmates to ascertain whether their attitudes mirror this punit
Inmate crime and victimization in a southwestern correctional facility
β Scribed by John D. Wooldredge
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 925 KB
- Volume
- 22
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0047-2352
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