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Towards a Fair and Balanced Assessment of Supermax Prisons

Daniel P. MearsCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 232-270 | Published online: 22 Aug 2006

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Daniel P. Mears & Mark C. Stafford. (2023) “Successful” Offending: The Salience of Performance Criteria for Understanding and Addressing Crime. Deviant Behavior 44:7, pages 1044-1062.
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Vivian Aranda-Hughes & Daniel P. Mears. (2023) Stressed Out in Lock Down: The Impacts of Work in Extended Restrictive Housing on Prison Personnel. Justice Quarterly 0:0, pages 1-25.
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David C. Pyrooz & Meghan M. Mitchell. (2020) The Use of Restrictive Housing on Gang and Non-Gang Affiliated Inmates in U.S. Prisons: Findings from a National Survey of Correctional Agencies. Justice Quarterly 37:4, pages 590-615.
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Melissa R. Nadel & Daniel P. Mears. (2020) Building with no end in sight: the theory and effects of prison architecture. Corrections 5:3, pages 188-205.
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Joshua C. Cochran, Elisa L. Toman, Daniel P. Mears & William D. Bales. (2018) Solitary Confinement as Punishment: Examining In-Prison Sanctioning Disparities. Justice Quarterly 35:3, pages 381-411.
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Heather Y. Bersot & Bruce A. Arrigo. (2011) The Ethics of Mechanical Restraints in Prisons and Jails: A Preliminary Inquiry from Psychological Jurisprudence. Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice 11:2-3, pages 232-264.
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Daniel P. Mears, Vivian Aranda-Hughes & George B. Pesta. (2021) Managing Prisons Through Extended Solitary Confinement: A Necessary Approach or a Signal of Prison System Failure?. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 68:1, pages 62-84.
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Susan McNeeley. (2023) Did Changes to Disciplinary Segregation Policy Affect Rates of Institutional Misconduct?. Criminal Justice and Behavior 50:10, pages 1547-1564.
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Daniel P. Mears, Vivian Aranda-Hughes, George B. Pesta, Jennifer M. Brown & William D. Bales. (2023) Captives of the “Society of Captives”: Working in Solitary Confinement. The Prison Journal 103:4, pages 513-540.
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Sonja E. Siennick, Jennifer M. Brown, Daniel P. Mears & Jasmine Clayton. (2022) A Within-Person Test of the Impact of Extended Solitary Confinement on Mental Health Functioning and Service Use. Criminal Justice and Behavior 50:4, pages 459-479.
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Vivian Aranda-Hughes & Daniel P. Mears. (2023) Solitary Confinement and Prison Personnel: Emotional numbing as a response to work in extended restrictive housing*. Incarceration 4, pages 263266632311603.
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Daniel P. Mears, Joshua C. Cochran, Vivian Aranda-Hughes & Jennifer M. Brown. (2022) Work in Long-Term Restrictive Housing and Prison Personnel Perceptions of the Humanity of People Who Are Incarcerated. Criminal Justice and Behavior 49:10, pages 1516-1535.
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Mayra Picon, Sonja E. Siennick, Jennifer M. Brown & Daniel P. Mears. (2022) Tracing changes in behavior across the extended solitary confinement process. Journal of Criminal Justice 79, pages 101899.
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Daniel P. Mears, George B. Pesta & Vivian Aranda-Hughes. (2021) Views From the Inside: Insights About Restrictive Housing From Prison System Officials, Officers, and Staff. The Prison Journal 101:6, pages 631-651.
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Vivian Aranda-Hughes, Daniel P. Mears, George B. Pesta & Jennifer M. Brown. (2020) The Contemporary Salience of Deprivation Theory: Prison Personnel Perceptions of Inmates and the Pains of Solitary Confinement. Crime & Delinquency 67:3, pages 399-430.
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Daniel P. Mears, Vivian Hughes, George B. Pesta, William D. Bales, Jennifer M. Brown, Joshua C. Cochran & John Wooldredge. (2019) The New Solitary Confinement? A Conceptual Framework for Guiding and Assessing Research and Policy on “Restrictive Housing”. Criminal Justice and Behavior 46:10, pages 1427-1444.
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Ryan M. Labrecque & Daniel P. Mears. (2019) Prison System Versus Critics’ Views on the Use of Restrictive Housing: Objective Risk Classification or Ascriptive Assignment?. The Prison Journal 99:2, pages 194-218.
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Daniel P. Mears & Joshua C. Cochran. 2019. Fundamentals of Criminological and Criminal Justice Inquiry. Fundamentals of Criminological and Criminal Justice Inquiry.
Jeffrey Ian Ross & Richard Tewksbury. (2018) The Challenges of Conducting Research on Supermax Prisons: Results From a Survey of Scholars Who Conduct Supermax Research. The Prison Journal 98:6, pages 722-737.
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Travis J. Meyers, Arynn Infante & Kevin A. Wright. (2018) Addressing Serious Violent Misconduct in Prison: Examining an Alternative Form of Restrictive Housing. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 62:14, pages 4585-4608.
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Justine A. Medrano, Turgut Ozkan & Robert Morris. (2017) Solitary Confinement Exposure and Capital Inmate Misconduct. American Journal of Criminal Justice 42:4, pages 863-882.
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O. Hayden GriffinIIIIII. 2017. The Encyclopedia of Corrections. The Encyclopedia of Corrections 1 4 .
O. Hayden GriffinIIIIII. 2017. The Encyclopedia of Corrections. The Encyclopedia of Corrections 1 5 .
H. Daniel Butler, Benjamin Steiner, Matthew D. Makarios & Lawrence F. TravisIIIIII. (2017) Assessing the Effects of Exposure to Supermax Confinement on Offender Postrelease Behaviors. The Prison Journal 97:3, pages 275-295.
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Robert G. Morris. (2015) Exploring the Effect of Exposure to Short-Term Solitary Confinement Among Violent Prison Inmates. Journal of Quantitative Criminology 32:1, pages 1-22.
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Erin A. Orrick. 2015. The Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment. The Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment 1 5 .
Stephen Owen. 2015. The Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment. The Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment 1 4 .
H. Daniel Butler, W. Wesley Johnson & O. Hayden GriffinIIIIII. (2014) The Treatment of the Mentally Ill in Supermax Facilities. Criminal Justice and Behavior 41:11, pages 1338-1353.
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H. Daniel Butler, O. Hayden GriffinIIIIII & W. Wesley Johnson. (2012) What Makes You the “Worst of the Worst?” An Examination of State Policies Defining Supermaximum Confinement. Criminal Justice Policy Review 24:6, pages 676-694.
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Daniel P. Mears. (2013) Supermax Prisons. Criminology & Public Policy 12:4, pages 681-719.
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Daniel P. Mears, Christina Mancini, Kevin M. Beaver & Marc Gertz. (2009) Housing for the “Worst of the Worst” Inmates. Crime & Delinquency 59:4, pages 587-615.
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Daniel P. Mears & William D. Bales. (2010) Supermax housing: Placement, duration, and time to reentry. Journal of Criminal Justice 38:4, pages 545-554.
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Bert Useem. (2010) Right-Sizing Corrections in New York. Justice Research and Policy 12:1, pages 89-112.
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Roy D. King & Sandra L. Resodihardjo. (2009) To max or not to max. Punishment & Society 12:1, pages 65-84.
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Kenneth V. Heard. 2010. Handbook of Gender Research in Psychology. Handbook of Gender Research in Psychology 587 612 .
DANIEL P. MEARS & WILLIAM D. BALES. (2009) SUPERMAX INCARCERATION AND RECIDIVISM*. Criminology 47:4, pages 1131-1166.
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Lorna A. Rhodes. 2009. Special Issue New Perspectives on Crime and Criminal Justice. Special Issue New Perspectives on Crime and Criminal Justice 193 218 .
Daniel P. Mears & Sarah Bacon. (2009) Improving criminal justice through better decision making: Lessons from the medical system. Journal of Criminal Justice 37:2, pages 142-154.
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Bruce A. ArrigoJennifer Leslie Bullock. (2007) The Psychological Effects of Solitary Confinement on Prisoners in Supermax Units. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 52:6, pages 622-640.
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David Lovell. (2008) Patterns of Disturbed Behavior in a Supermax Population. Criminal Justice and Behavior 35:8, pages 985-1004.
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Maureen L. O'Keefe. (2008) Administrative Segregation From Within. The Prison Journal 88:1, pages 123-143.
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Jody L. Sundt, Thomas C. Castellano & Chad S. Briggs. (2008) The Sociopolitical Context of Prison Violence and Its Control. The Prison Journal 88:1, pages 94-122.
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Alexandra Naday, Joshua D. Freilich & Jeff Mellow. (2008) The Elusive Data on Supermax Confinement. The Prison Journal 88:1, pages 69-93.
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Daniel P. Mears. (2008) An Assessment of Supermax Prisons Using an Evaluation Research Framework. The Prison Journal 88:1, pages 43-68.
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David LovellL. Clark Johnson & Kevin C. Cain. (2016) Recidivism of Supermax Prisoners in Washington State. Crime & Delinquency 53:4, pages 633-656.
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Jonathan Steven Simon & Richard Sparks. (2013) Introduction - Punishment and Society: The Emergence of an Academic Field. SSRN Electronic Journal.
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