NCJ Number
52584
Date Published
1978
Length
100 pages
Annotation
THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO PRISONS AND PRISONERS AND SUCH SPECIALIZED TOPICS AS PRISON VIOLENCE AND MINORITY AND FAMILY RELATIONS ARE REFERENCED IN THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY ON PRISONER SUBCULTURES.
Abstract
THE CITED MATERIALS ARE SUBDIVIDED INTO THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES: (1) BOOKS AND ARTICLES ON PRISONER SUBCULTURES AMONG INCARCERATED MEN; (2) PUBLICATIONS ON FEMALE CORRECTIONAL SUBCULTURES; (3) PUBLICATIONS ON CORRECTIONAL SUBCULTURES IN INSTITUTIONS FOR BOYS; AND (4) BACKGROUND MATERIALS FOR THE STUDY OF PRISONS AND PRISONERS. A BRIEF LITERATURE REVIEW INTRODUCES EACH SECTION, HIGHLIGHTING PARTICULARLY OUTSTANDING SELECTIONS. THE MATERIALS WERE PUBLISHED BETWEEN 1930 AND 1977 AND ARE ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY BY AUTHOR WITHIN THE INDIVIDUAL SUBSECTIONS. IN ADDITION TO FOCUSING ON PHILOSOPHICAL, SOCIOLOGICAL, ECONOMIC, PSYCHOLOGICAL, PHENOMENOLOGICAL, AND POLITICAL APPROACHES TO STUDYING PRISONS AND PRISONERS, ATTENTION IS DEVOTED TO ETHNIC AND MINORITY INTERACTION WITHIN PRISONS, FAMILY RELATIONS, AND FOUR VARIETIES OF PRISON VIOLENCE--RIOTS, INTERPERSONAL ASSAULT AND HOMICIDE, SELF-MUTILATION, AND VIOLENT OR EXPLOITIVE HOMOSEXUALITY.