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Mears, Daniel P.; Mancini, Christina; Beaver, Kevin M.; Gertz, Marc – Crime & Delinquency, 2013
Despite concerns whether supermaximum security prisons violate human rights or prove effective, these facilities have proliferated in America over the past 25 years. This punishment--aimed at the "worst of the worst" inmates and involving 23-hr-per-day single-cell confinement with few privileges or services--has emerged despite little…
Descriptors: Housing, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Education, Hypothesis Testing
Pickett, Justin T.; Mears, Daniel P.; Stewart, Eric A.; Gertz, Marc – Crime & Delinquency, 2013
In "The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society," David Garland linked contemporary crime control policies and welfare reforms to a cultural formation that he termed the "crime complex of late modernity." According to Garland, once established, the crime complex exerts a contemporaneous effect on…
Descriptors: Crime, Prediction, Welfare Services, Security (Psychology)
Mears, Daniel P.; Mancini, Christina; Gertz, Marc; Bratton, Jake – Crime & Delinquency, 2008
"Get tough" approaches for responding to sex crimes have proliferated during the past decade. Child pornography in particular has garnered attention in recent years. Policy makers increasingly have emphasized incarceration as a response to such crime, including accessing child pornography. Juxtaposed against such efforts is a dearth of knowledge…
Descriptors: Telephone Surveys, Crime, Adults, Pornography