Essays on Prison Violence

Abstract Rape is the most closely protected secret of American prisons. Modern jails and prisons are designed to protect inmates from each other and allow for constant penal supervision. However, incarceration creates a high risk of sexual victimization for males. Prisoners are subjected to and...

Prison violence occurs daily and has been an increasing epidemic across many prisons around the world. In prison, people who were a danger or a menace to society are put together in a small confined area, with rules forced upon them as they are expected...

Juvenile Offenders in Prison “According to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the number of delinquency cases involving detention increased 29 percent between 1985 and 2009 from 246,300 to 318,000.” The dynamic role the Juvenile Justice System has structured has not only been...

World Health Organisation, stated in the World report on violence and health (2002) defined violence as the use of physical power or force, a threat to self, others, communities or groups that result in injury, psychological harm or death. The definition emphasises that an individual...

Correctional facilities are experiencing the affect of gangs and their influence on violence. Most of prison violence has been made up of folklore blaming guards. Inmate to inmate assaults are calculated to 28 attacks per 1,000(Clear, Cole, Reisig pg.281). These violent actions are directly related...