The Past Is Prologue: Prior Adjustment to Prison and Institutional Misconduct

The Prison Journal

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 331-352

  Drury, Alan J ^a   Delisi, Matt ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

female; institutional misconduct; male; prior adjustment; prison; prison violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956317989     PISSN: 00328855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0032885510375676     Document Type: Article

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