Victimization Inside Prison

Abstract

AbstractChapter 5 uses the personal accounts of incarcerated people to explore the production of harm inside prison. The chapter offers a unified model, called the triadic (resident-officer-environment) dynamic interactive (TDI) model, that draws from importation and deprivation theories, strain/stress theory, and a life-course perspective, to identify explanatory factors that might hinder or foster prison-based victimization. The empirical evidence on the impact of individual and prison factors on prison-based victimization is reviewed using the TDI model to organize the evidence. Research findings from national and international studies are reviewed. Similarities and differences in findings are discussed in the context of theoretical and methodological differences. Recommendations for the next generation of empirical studies are discussed in the last section.