Casting light on prison violence in Scotland: Evaluating the impact of situational risk factors

Criminal Justice and Behavior

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1065-1078

  Cooke, David J ^a   Wozniak, Ed ^b   Johnstone, Lorraine ^c  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b International Corrections and Prisons Association

^c Douglas Inch Center

Author keywords

Institutional risk factors; Prison violence; Risk assessment; Situation risk factors; Structured professional judgment; Violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 47149117616     PISSN: 00938548     EISSN: 15523594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093854808318867     Document Type: Article

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