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Black Rage in the American Prison System (Criminal Justice: Recent Scholarship) - Hardcover

Noble, Rosevelt

 
9781593321000: Black Rage in the American Prison System (Criminal Justice: Recent Scholarship)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1593321007 ISBN 13: 9781593321000
Publisher: LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

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

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About the Author

Rosevelt L. Noble received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Vanderbilt University in 2003. He is currently Director of the Workforce Investment Act with the Tennessee Higher Education Commission (THEC) and a Senior Lecturer in the Sociology Department at Vanderbilt, where he teaches courses on Prison Life, Criminology, and Statistics.

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Publisher
LFB Scholarly Publishing
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1593321007
ISBN 13 
9781593321000
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
318