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Potential of Inmate Self‐Government
Author(s) -
JOHNSON ELMER H.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
criminology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.467
H-Index - 139
eISSN - 1745-9125
pISSN - 0011-1384
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-9125.1977.tb00059.x
Subject(s) - government (linguistics) , prison , incentive , sociocultural evolution , politics , criminology , population , criminal justice , agency (philosophy) , political science , isolation (microbiology) , social psychology , psychology , sociology , law , economics , social science , philosophy , linguistics , demography , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , microeconomics
Inmate self‐government is one of the strategies for moving correctional institutions away from the crime control establishment model and toward the community subsystem model Authentic participation in government of these institutions, however, awaits resolution of basic questions. With the prison organization provide the prerequisite conditions?. Will the inmates be prepared for effective participation. since the suicide processes of criminal justice administration heavily from those segments of the American population king expunge and incentives for significant political participation? Penal dorm depends on sociocultural changes in the society of which formations is a creature. Whether or not inmate self‐government is o via reform strategy pivots ultimately on the revision of social attitudes toward deviants generally and the capacity of the prison to reduce significantly its social psychological isolation from the larger community system.