The correctional melting pot: Race, ethnicity, citizenship, and prison violence |
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Authors: | Mark T Berg Matt DeLisi |
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Institution: | aDepartment of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 839 Lucas Hall, St. Louis, Missouri 63121-4499, United States;bDepartment of Sociology, Iowa State University, 203A East Hall, Ames, Iowa 50011-1070, United States |
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Abstract: | The United States prison population is becoming more diverse and comprised of increasingly more violent inmates. Although race has been cited as a risk factor for inmate violence, most prior research had narrowly investigated White/Black differences in inmate misconduct. Using a sample of 1,005 inmates from the southwestern U.S., the current study explored racial, ethnic, and citizenship correlates among male and female prisoners. Negative binomial regression models indicated that net of controls, Hispanics and Native Americans were the most violent male prisoners, while African Americans and Native Americans were the most violent female inmates. The current study was admittedly modest in scope; however, the findings were couched within a broader, imperative sociological framework that lamented the increasing interplay between communities and prison and the role of prison as a social institution. |
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