Category: Publications
Learning Corrections: Linking Experience and Research – 2012
This paper (a chapter in Lee Michael Johnson’s book, EXPERIENCING CORRECTIONS, Sage, 2012) ) describes Lucien Lombardo’s early days as a teacher at Auburn Prison from 1969-1977. Lessons from ‘his experiences’ and his efforts to understand these experiences through the exploration of available research on living and working in prison, such as Bruno Bettelheim’s “individual and Mass Behavior in Extreme… Read more →
Guards Imprisoned: Correctional Officers at Work 1981, 1989, 2016
GUARDS IMPRISONED: Correctional Officers at Work provides the first through exploration of the diversity of approaches to working and impacts of working in prison. Conducted at Auburn Prison in New York, the research upon which the book is based integrates interviews with over 70 correctional officers with from 2 to 40 years of experience working a variety of job assignments.… Read more →
Law Reform, Child Maltreatment and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child – 2016 (Co-Authored with Karen A. Polonko and Ian Bolling)
THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CHILDREN’S RIGHTS “Law Reform, Child Maltreatment and the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child”, Karen A. Polonko, PhD; Old Dominion University, Norfolk VA, USA; kpolonko@odu.edu; Lucien X. Lombardo, PhD. Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA,USA, llombard@odu.edu; Ian Bolling, MA, JD, Tidewater Community College, Norfolk, VA USA, ibolling@odu.edu Abstract Scholars and practitioners stress the need for… Read more →
Attica Remembered: 1996
Abstract This essay is a personal and intellectual autobiographical analysis ofthe roots and dynamics of the development and conclusion of acultural icon in the history of American prisons, the Attica PrisonRebellion. In 1971 Attica Prison in New York State became the blood spilled by agents of the government in the retaking of the prison. This personal essay about the Attica… Read more →
Peace Education and Childhood: Helping Adults Connect with their Childhoods to Connect with Children – 2015 (Co-Authored with Karen A. Polonko)
Peace studies and peace education are multifaceted processes focusing on diverse audiences from children in elementary grades to those involved in political negotiations at the highest levels. This paper addresses the foundational importance of including conflict embedded in adult-child relationships in peace education.It conceptually grounds assignments for university level courses designed to teach concepts linked to peace education through the… Read more →