The work of the Persian poet Mas'ud Sa'd Salmân (d. 1121 C.E.) is studied by situating him in his appropriate historical and cultural context, while exploring the idea that writing at the frontier of empire contributed to various types of innovations in his poetry. There is a pe…
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This dissertation is an ethnographic study of the seven-year-long mass hunger strike undertaken by prisoners affiliated with outlawed Marxist-Leninist organizations in Turkey to protest their transfer from traditional ward-type facilities to new cellular institutions modeled aft…
This study is a case study of Indonesian prisoners. It explores the life of both political and criminal inmates within the walls. Thus, similarities and dissimilarities of their behavior in everyday life within the prison are the main scrutiny of this study. In sum, this study f…
Based on a nine-month ethnographic study of a young offenders' institution in Belfast this thesis explores the needs and experiences of young men imprisoned in Northern Ireland through the lens of critical masculinities studies. The Prison Review Team has described Hydebank, and…
Background: Concern has been voiced over the needs of ex-military personnel following their discharge from military service and subsequent transition to community living. This concern has extended to include veterans, particularly those who have mental health, drug or alcohol pr…
This dissertation examines the contemporary genre of prison literature (adab al-sijn ) in Syria and its connections to avant-garde Arabic literary experimentalism and global human rights discourse. Through readings of various literary works produced in, through, and about the ex…
Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is a known public health threat to prison systems due to poor hygiene, crowded living conditions, poor health of inmates, and poor prison healthcare systems. The large population of HIV-infected people living in prisons is especially susceptible to …
Background: Iran is one of the countries with the highest rate of opioid and heroin consumption in the world1, 2. Injection drug use (IDU) is a relatively new phenomenon in Iran, where opium smoking was previously more prevalent. This study aims to identify risk factors that dif…
Changes in prison reform, high incarceration rates, high turn-over rates and poor professional performance, have been largely identified within the field of forensic psychology. This study was designed to examine susceptibility for vicarious trauma in correctional psychologists …
Esta tesis examina como en la novela El apando de José Revueltas y el testimonio Los días y los años de Luis González de Alba, el espacio es representado, organizado, y manipulado para funcionar como una herramienta del estado mexicano para ejercer su poder. Este poder era ejecu…
Research has long documented racial and economic disparities in imprisonment and the recidivism rate. Despite studies that suggest these disparities cannot be fully explained by differential involvement in crime, scholars have not paid enough attention to how individual characte…
The purpose of the study was to examine the impact of incarceration on Black males’ mental health and coping skills. Transactional stress coping theory investigates stress as a by-product caused between a person and their environment and Afrocentric theory was used as the lens t…
Incarceration, especially in the United States, is deeply related to issues of racism, poverty, and citizenship. These particular experiences are the result of a history of biopolitical control affecting Black and brown communities and have a quintessential origin in enslavement…
Prison Forms: Genre and Excarceral Politics in Victorian Literature focuses on popular nineteenth-century literature that engages with criminal justice topics that were timely in their era and continue unresolved in the twenty-first century. I read literary and periodical texts …
Homelessness is a devastating experience that impacts hundreds of thousands of individuals in the U.S. each day. It has been widely reported that homeless persons experience higher rates of mental disorder, substance abuse, and physical illness than domiciled individuals. Homele…
This dissertation is a contribution to the depth and breadth of prison media history. I position prison media of the 1970s as key antecedents to the prison reality television of the 2000s and today. The purpose of this arrangement is to bring attention to an era of prison media …
The purpose of this research was to assess the faith maturity of Angola extension center students of Leavell College at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Seventy-one students completed the Faith Maturity Survey (FMS). An analysis of variance (ANOVA) and the Kruskal-Walli…
Mass incarceration began almost fifty years ago and has proliferated to the point that the United States is the world leader in incarceration. Much work has been done that examines the history and nature of mass incarceration and the carceral state. However, an area that has rec…
This dissertation explores the central importance of capital punishment in the development of a criminal justice system in Wisconsin – first as part of the Michigan Territory (1818-36), then as a separate U.S. territory (1836-48), and, finally, throughout its early years as a st…