This article was written for the ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA. In September 2021 will make 50 years since the Attica Prison Revolt. We seem to have learned so little in that half century! Read more →
Category: Publications
National Building and Social Control: Observations from Ivory Coast and Tanzania, 1986
Crime control is but one of many areas of life where governments attempt to influence the lives of their citizens through formal state institutions. Within the context of Third World countries, the ‘reality’ of government as nation is something which must be tested if we are to interpret more accurately comparative crime and crime control information. Utilizing Eckstein’s distinction between… Read more →
Lessons from the Third World for Understanding American Criminal Justice – 1984
This article was developed as part of a faculty curriculum development project designed to assist faculty from a variety of disciplines in integrating information and perspectives from 3rd world countries into their courses. One important lesson related to crime and criminal justice is the behaviors committed by individuals against other individuals = crime (through legal fiction are fictional ‘social harms… Read more →
The Pen and the Pendulum: Finding Our Way to the Future of Incarceration – 1995
This Chapter in Crime and Justice in the Year 2010 (published in 1995) explores the dynamics of the dialectic of the purposes and nature of imprisonment in the United States in an effort to predict (in 1995) what would be happening with the internal prison life and policy related to internal prison life (not the use of incarceration and prison… Read more →
Prisonography: Sources of Knowledge about Prisons – 2004
This chapter in CORRECTIONAL CRIMINOLOGY, Edited by Sean O’Toole and Simon Eyland discusses the problem of multiple realities (prisoners, prison officers, administrators, politicians, mass media (press, film), advocacy and academic (with sub disciplines) and the various courses of information (data) which inform the reality! Read more →
Enlightened Witness: Reasserting Humanity in the Face of Violence at the Beginning of the 21st Century – 2004 (Co-Authored with Karen A. Polonko)
Abstract This paper builds on the foundational work of two great humanists who provide transformative lessons from confrontations with violence: Elie Wiesel who confronts the death camps of Nazi Germany and Alice Miller who confronts the ‘poisonous pedagogy’ of childhood discipline. On this foundation, we explore ways to incorporate these humanizing processes and transformative lessons for our students into three… Read more →
NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS AND THE UN CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD – 2014 (Co-Authored with Karen A. Polonko)
Abstract : This study seeks to contribute to knowledge of the implementation of the U.N Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Focus was restricted to one of eight General Measures of Implementation – involvement of civil society, in particular, non-government organisations (NGOS), in the implementation and monitoring of the CRC. The study had three aims: (1) to develop initial… Read more →
Interdisciplinary Contributions to The Understanding of Child Maltreatment – 2010 (Co-Authored with Karen A. Polonko)
Abstract: Interdisciplinarity at its core involves epistemologically reconceptualizing a problem and challenging discipline/s within which the problem is embedded. This paper attempts to show how research on child maltreatment within disciplines can be integrated within the context of new paradigm that epistemologically challenges the prevailing traditional paradigm within individual disciplines and reconceptualizes the problem of child maltreatment, leading to new insights… Read more →
Group Dynamics and the Correctional Officer Subculture: Is it an Impediment to Helping Inmates 1985
Abstract: It is often argued that correctional officer as a group hold values that are antithetical to helping inmates. This assumption links “guard subculture” values to reinforcing group solidarity among correctional officers. This paper explores some of the literature on correctional officer from the perspective of the social psychology of group dynamics. Its conclusion is thot factors which appear to foster… Read more →