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Violent crime and prisons : population, health conditions and recidivism / Aidan Renshaw and Emelina Suárez, editors.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Criminal justice, law enforcement and correctionsPublication details: Hauppauge, NY : Nova Science Publishers, c2009.Description: xii, 302 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9781607416685 (hbk.)
  • 1607416689 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 365/.4 22
LOC classification:
  • HV6493 .V568 2009
Contents:
Extreme temperature as a cause of violence / John Simister and Cary Cooper -- Understanding experiences of incarcerated adolescent male youth: the importance of a develomental framework / Carla Cesaroni and Michele Peterson-Badali -- Unity building as violence prevention: a call for a fundamental paradigm shift / H.B. Danesh -- Interpersonal skills: effects of a training program on quantitative and qualitative response criteria in incarcerated women criminals / Maria Angeles Belena, Maria Jose Baguena and Maria de la Paz Toldos -- Social order in post-communist prisons: the study of prisons in Poland / Barbat Pabjan -- Violence and college students -- prevalence, legal and psychological issues / Dean Lauterbach and Natalie K. Nugent -- Violent crime on television: content and impact / Amir Hetsroni -- Psychopathy and violence: parsing the heterogeneity of aggression and aggressors / Shayen Jones, James Ray and Casey Williams -- Effects of sex and status difference of taget and aggressor on adolescents' assessment of the target in scenarios of aggression / Mario de la Paz Toldos-Romero -- Love, warmth and sexual gratification or, rather, manipulation of power and abuse: female inmates' attitudes toward same-sex sexual relationships in a maximum-security prison / Tomer Einat -- Women and the pains of imprisonment: does gender matter? / Olga Themeli -- HIV-positive prisoners and institutional segregation: a legal and health analysis / Bronwen Lichtenstein -- Counseling in prison: problems and challenges / Theodoros Giovazolias and Olga Themeli -- Using arts therapies with prisoners from drug addiction / L. Schiltz.
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Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Extreme temperature as a cause of violence / John Simister and Cary Cooper -- Understanding experiences of incarcerated adolescent male youth: the importance of a develomental framework / Carla Cesaroni and Michele Peterson-Badali -- Unity building as violence prevention: a call for a fundamental paradigm shift / H.B. Danesh -- Interpersonal skills: effects of a training program on quantitative and qualitative response criteria in incarcerated women criminals / Maria Angeles Belena, Maria Jose Baguena and Maria de la Paz Toldos -- Social order in post-communist prisons: the study of prisons in Poland / Barbat Pabjan -- Violence and college students -- prevalence, legal and psychological issues / Dean Lauterbach and Natalie K. Nugent -- Violent crime on television: content and impact / Amir Hetsroni -- Psychopathy and violence: parsing the heterogeneity of aggression and aggressors / Shayen Jones, James Ray and Casey Williams -- Effects of sex and status difference of taget and aggressor on adolescents' assessment of the target in scenarios of aggression / Mario de la Paz Toldos-Romero -- Love, warmth and sexual gratification or, rather, manipulation of power and abuse: female inmates' attitudes toward same-sex sexual relationships in a maximum-security prison / Tomer Einat -- Women and the pains of imprisonment: does gender matter? / Olga Themeli -- HIV-positive prisoners and institutional segregation: a legal and health analysis / Bronwen Lichtenstein -- Counseling in prison: problems and challenges / Theodoros Giovazolias and Olga Themeli -- Using arts therapies with prisoners from drug addiction / L. Schiltz.

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