The Use of Force by Detention Officers (Criminal Justice: Recent Scholarship) (Criminal Justice Recent Scholarship)
Publisher: LFB Scholarly Publishing; LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC
Published: October 2001
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9781931202015
Subjects: Prison violence; Violence in Society; Penology; Inmate guards; Sociology; Law; Research; Political Freedom & Security - Law Enforcement; Criminal Procedure; Arizona; Case studies; Maricopa County
First sentence: Described alternatively as "conflict ridden social worlds" (Jacobs, 1983), " the sewers of the justice system" (Houston, Gibbons &amp; Jones, 1988), "dirty little worlds" (Stohr, Lovrich, Menke &amp; Zupan, 1994) and institutions where "idleness, overcrowding, deteriorating physical facilities, and inadequate medical and psychiatric treatment ... contribute to the instability and negative social climate" (Bowker, 1982, p. 319), jails generally are relegated to the lowest level of status among social institutions, receiving only limited attention from social science research.