Leo Carroll
Biographic Data
| ID | 105297 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leo Carroll |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leo |
| FAMILY NAME | Carroll |
| SIGNATURE | CARROLL L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Rhode Island |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 175 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Mass Incarceration and Conditions of Confinement
This chapter compares confinement conditions in American prisons today to those in the mid- to late twentieth century, and the reasons for this evolution. Other topics considered include changes in (a) inmate rights and privileges, (b) priorities placed on safety and management, (c) program availability, and (d) managerial controls over inmates (both coercive and remunerative). Also provided is an overview of improvements in prison architecture a…
Prison Siting, Rural Development, Racism, and Justice Reinvestment
The Use of Incarceration in the United States
Resolution of Prison Riots: Strategies and Policies
The book uses eight diverse case studies of prison riots to explore how the outcomes were affected by policies, procedures, management, communications, and strategy immediately before, during, and after the riot. Exploring the results achieved by negotiation, by force, and by simply waiting, the authors illuminate the factors most important in controlling the costs of damage and human suffering that can result from increasingly common prison dist…
Hacks, Blacks and Cons: Race Relations in a Maximum Security Prison
Concern with Aids and the Sexual Behavior of College Students
The extent and distribution of concern about acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is examined via a sample questionnaire distributed to 673 US college students. The impact of this concern on their sexual behavior is investigated. In the 447 usable questionnaires returned over 40% of the students claim that concern about AIDS has affected their behavior. 15% of the non-sexually active students report that their concern has prevented them from…
The Joint: Language and Culture in a Maximum Security Prison
U.S. Social Structure and Imprisonment: A Comment
An article by Joubert, Picon and McIntosh (1981) is found to contain several serious methodological flaws. A second analysis using a similar data set suggests that these methodological problems may have caused them to draw erroneous conclusions regarding the effects of social structural variables on prison admission and release rates
Inequality, Opportunity, and Crime Rates in Central Cities
In a recent paper, Cohen and Felson argue that changes in our routine activities since World War 11 have contributed to the increase in predatory crime by creating additional opportunities for it. In particular, they found that a measure of the dispersal of activities away from the home‐the household activity ratio‐has had a significant effect on crime rate trends since 1947. The aim of the present research is twofold: (1) to determine if this re…
Minority Composition, Inequality and the Growth of Municipal Police Forces, 1960–71
Recent studies, in finding that community variables such as percentage Black and income inequality have significant effects on police size and expenditures, call into question the findings of earlier research. However, these recent studies are themselves subject to serious methodological limitations and leave open the question of whether it is class or racial conflict which affects the deployment of police resources. In this study we estimate sev…
Race and the War on Crime: The Sociopolitical Determinants of Municipal Police Expenditures in 90 non-Southern U.S. Cities
Three variables suggested by conflict theory--the racial composition of the city, the level of black mobilization activity, and the frequency of riots in the 1960s--are used as independent predictors of municipal policing expenditures in 1971. A simultaneous model which recognizes the interdependence of the police expenditure function with the crime and total city revenue functions is tested using data for a sample of 90 U.S. cities. Racial compo…
Stateville: The Penitentiary in Mass Society
Luke Street: Housing Policy, Conflict and the Creation of the Delinquent Area
Crime and Criminology
Humanitarian Reform and Biracial Sexual Assault in a Maximum Security Prison
Racial Bias in the Decision to Grant Parole
Research concerning racial discrimination within the criminal justice system has focused largely upon the police and the courts. There is reason to believe, however, that differential treatment may be more common in less visible proceedings. This research addresses that possibility through an examination of the cases of 243 prisoners who appeared before a parole board from October 1, 1970, through September 30, 1971. There is no evidence of direc…
Hacks, Blacks, and Cons
Race and the War on Crime: The Sociopolitical Determinants of Municipal Police Expenditures in 90 non-Southern U.S. Cities
Three variables suggested by conflict theory--the racial composition of the city, the level of black mobilization activity, and the frequency of riots in the 1960s--are used as independent predictors of municipal policing expenditures in 1971. A simultaneous model which recognizes the interdependence of the police expenditure function with the crime and total city revenue functions is tested using data for a sample of 90 U.S. cities. Racial compo…
Inequality, Opportunity, and Crime Rates in Central Cities
In a recent paper, Cohen and Felson argue that changes in our routine activities since World War 11 have contributed to the increase in predatory crime by creating additional opportunities for it. In particular, they found that a measure of the dispersal of activities away from the home‐the household activity ratio‐has had a significant effect on crime rate trends since 1947. The aim of the present research is twofold: (1) to determine if this re…
Racial Bias in the Decision to Grant Parole
Research concerning racial discrimination within the criminal justice system has focused largely upon the police and the courts. There is reason to believe, however, that differential treatment may be more common in less visible proceedings. This research addresses that possibility through an examination of the cases of 243 prisoners who appeared before a parole board from October 1, 1970, through September 30, 1971. There is no evidence of direc…
U.S. Social Structure and Imprisonment: A Comment
An article by Joubert, Picon and McIntosh (1981) is found to contain several serious methodological flaws. A second analysis using a similar data set suggests that these methodological problems may have caused them to draw erroneous conclusions regarding the effects of social structural variables on prison admission and release rates
The Use of Incarceration in the United States
Concern with Aids and the Sexual Behavior of College Students
The extent and distribution of concern about acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is examined via a sample questionnaire distributed to 673 US college students. The impact of this concern on their sexual behavior is investigated. In the 447 usable questionnaires returned over 40% of the students claim that concern about AIDS has affected their behavior. 15% of the non-sexually active students report that their concern has prevented them from…
Humanitarian Reform and Biracial Sexual Assault in a Maximum Security Prison
Prison Siting, Rural Development, Racism, and Justice Reinvestment
Minority Composition, Inequality and the Growth of Municipal Police Forces, 1960–71
Recent studies, in finding that community variables such as percentage Black and income inequality have significant effects on police size and expenditures, call into question the findings of earlier research. However, these recent studies are themselves subject to serious methodological limitations and leave open the question of whether it is class or racial conflict which affects the deployment of police resources. In this study we estimate sev…
Hacks, Blacks and Cons: Race Relations in a Maximum Security Prison
Racial Bias in the Decision to Grant Parole
Research concerning racial discrimination within the criminal justice system has focused largely upon the police and the courts. There is reason to believe, however, that differential treatment may be more common in less visible proceedings. This research addresses that possibility through an examination of the cases of 243 prisoners who appeared before a parole board from October 1, 1970, through September 30, 1971. There is no evidence of direc…
Hacks, Blacks, and Cons
Crime and Criminology
Humanitarian Reform and Biracial Sexual Assault in a Maximum Security Prison
Luke Street: Housing Policy, Conflict and the Creation of the Delinquent Area
Stateville: The Penitentiary in Mass Society
Race and the War on Crime: The Sociopolitical Determinants of Municipal Police Expenditures in 90 non-Southern U.S. Cities
Three variables suggested by conflict theory--the racial composition of the city, the level of black mobilization activity, and the frequency of riots in the 1960s--are used as independent predictors of municipal policing expenditures in 1971. A simultaneous model which recognizes the interdependence of the police expenditure function with the crime and total city revenue functions is tested using data for a sample of 90 U.S. cities. Racial compo…
Minority Composition, Inequality and the Growth of Municipal Police Forces, 1960–71
Recent studies, in finding that community variables such as percentage Black and income inequality have significant effects on police size and expenditures, call into question the findings of earlier research. However, these recent studies are themselves subject to serious methodological limitations and leave open the question of whether it is class or racial conflict which affects the deployment of police resources. In this study we estimate sev…
U.S. Social Structure and Imprisonment: A Comment
An article by Joubert, Picon and McIntosh (1981) is found to contain several serious methodological flaws. A second analysis using a similar data set suggests that these methodological problems may have caused them to draw erroneous conclusions regarding the effects of social structural variables on prison admission and release rates
Inequality, Opportunity, and Crime Rates in Central Cities
In a recent paper, Cohen and Felson argue that changes in our routine activities since World War 11 have contributed to the increase in predatory crime by creating additional opportunities for it. In particular, they found that a measure of the dispersal of activities away from the home‐the household activity ratio‐has had a significant effect on crime rate trends since 1947. The aim of the present research is twofold: (1) to determine if this re…
The Joint: Language and Culture in a Maximum Security Prison
Hacks, Blacks and Cons: Race Relations in a Maximum Security Prison
Concern with Aids and the Sexual Behavior of College Students
The extent and distribution of concern about acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is examined via a sample questionnaire distributed to 673 US college students. The impact of this concern on their sexual behavior is investigated. In the 447 usable questionnaires returned over 40% of the students claim that concern about AIDS has affected their behavior. 15% of the non-sexually active students report that their concern has prevented them from…
Resolution of Prison Riots: Strategies and Policies
The book uses eight diverse case studies of prison riots to explore how the outcomes were affected by policies, procedures, management, communications, and strategy immediately before, during, and after the riot. Exploring the results achieved by negotiation, by force, and by simply waiting, the authors illuminate the factors most important in controlling the costs of damage and human suffering that can result from increasingly common prison dist…
The Use of Incarceration in the United States
Prison Siting, Rural Development, Racism, and Justice Reinvestment
Mass Incarceration and Conditions of Confinement
This chapter compares confinement conditions in American prisons today to those in the mid- to late twentieth century, and the reasons for this evolution. Other topics considered include changes in (a) inmate rights and privileges, (b) priorities placed on safety and management, (c) program availability, and (d) managerial controls over inmates (both coercive and remunerative). Also provided is an overview of improvements in prison architecture a…
Criminology (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (7 works) · Prison (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Demographic economics (3 works)