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Penal System (penal + system)

Distribution by Scientific Domains
Law and Criminology80%

Selected Abstracts

Not Just ,Visitors' to Prisons:The Experiences of Imams who Work Inside the Penal System

THE HOWARD JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE, Issue 1 2001
Basia Spalek
This article presents the results of a study exploring the consequences of working within a Christian-dominated penal system upon a group of Imams who regularly visit prisons. The Islamic religion is currently the fastest growing non-Christian religion in British prisons and so it was considered to be important to document the experiences of the spiritual guides of this faith. Interview data revealed that the Imams face many disadvantages as a result of belonging to a non-Christian religion, amounting to a form of ,institutional racism'. However, many of them revealed that they were not the passive victims of institutional racism (and sometimes direct racism also), but rather struggled against their material conditions in order to force the prisons in which they work to respond to their own needs and those of the prisoners whom they serve. Nonetheless, it appears that any opportunities for change are limited by the structural imbalance between Christian and non-Christian faiths within the penal system. [source]

Penal Systems: A Comparative Approach , By M. Cavadino and J. Dignan

THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY, Issue 3 2007
Barbara Mason
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Incarceration, Health, and Racial Disparities in Health

LAW & SOCIETY REVIEW, Issue 2 2008
Michael Massoglia
This article addresses two basic questions. First, it examines whether incarceration has a lasting impact on health functioning. Second, because blacks are more likely than whites to be exposed to the negative effects of the penal system,including fractured social bonds, reduced labor market prospects, and high levels of infectious disease,it considers whether the penal system contributes to racial health disparities. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and both regression and propensity matching estimators, the article empirically demonstrates a significant relationship between incarceration and later health status. More specifically, incarceration exerts lasting effects on midlife health functioning. In addition, this analysis finds that, due primarily to disproportionate rates of incarceration, the penal system plays a role in perpetuating racial differences in midlife physical health functioning. [source]

Not Just ,Visitors' to Prisons:The Experiences of Imams who Work Inside the Penal System

THE HOWARD JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE, Issue 1 2001
Basia Spalek
This article presents the results of a study exploring the consequences of working within a Christian-dominated penal system upon a group of Imams who regularly visit prisons. The Islamic religion is currently the fastest growing non-Christian religion in British prisons and so it was considered to be important to document the experiences of the spiritual guides of this faith. Interview data revealed that the Imams face many disadvantages as a result of belonging to a non-Christian religion, amounting to a form of ,institutional racism'. However, many of them revealed that they were not the passive victims of institutional racism (and sometimes direct racism also), but rather struggled against their material conditions in order to force the prisons in which they work to respond to their own needs and those of the prisoners whom they serve. Nonetheless, it appears that any opportunities for change are limited by the structural imbalance between Christian and non-Christian faiths within the penal system. [source]