Author： Crouch Ben Marquart James
Publisher： Routledge Ltd
ISSN： 0741-8825
Source： Justice Quarterly, Vol.7, Iss.1, 1990-03, pp. : 103-123
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Abstract
The turmoil and prisoner violence that frequently follow court efforts to improve prison conditions have been called the “paradox of reform,” in which the very process intended to make the prison better can make it a more dangerous place. This argument implies that prisoners are often safer before the reforms and that high rates of violence and fear become a normal element of postreform prison life. The present analysis examines violence rates and prisoners' perceptions of risk before and through nearly a decade of litigated reform in the Texas prison system. Results show that prisoners did not feel at all safe in the “old days” and that the paradox exists only in the short term.
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