Black rage in the American prison system / Rosevelt L. Noble.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Noble, Rosevelt.

Series:

Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)

Criminal justice recent scholarship

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisons and race relations--United States.

Prisons and race relations.

African American prisoners.

Racism--United States.

Racism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Noble's thesis is that African-American inmates transport "black rage" into the prison subculture, which significantly affects prison violence rates. He finds previous studies superficial and raises the bar for future examinations by proposing a sensitive and taboo theory to explain the strong racial patterns observed in prison victimization. Noble's work supports the importation theory of the inmate subculture proposed by Irwin and Cressey. He builds on their theory by advocating for the inclusion of race and other cultural factors concerning the inmate and staff populations into predicative models. He concludes that prisons with greater racial disparities between the inmate and staff populations experience higher staff assault rates

Contents:

Approaching taboo topics

Race and prison violence

Understanding Black rage

Building the theoretical model

Data summary and statistical design

Cross-sectional models and prison violence

Institutional changes and prison violence

Prison violence, Black rage, and implications.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-297) and index.

ISBN:

1-59332-217-8

OCLC:

191936499