Racial Discrimination, Penology & Correctional Studies - General & Miscellaneous, Ethnic & Race Relations - General, Prisons & Prison Life, African Americans - Law, Politics, & Government

Black Rage in the American Prison System

Name: Black Rage in the American Prison System
Author: Rosevelt L. Noble
ISBN: 9781593321000

by Rosevelt L. Noble

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Overview

Noble's thesis is that African-American inmates transport "black rage" into the prison subculture, which significantly affects prison violence rates. He finds previous studies superficial and raises the bar for future examinations by proposing a sensitive and taboo theory to explain the strong racial patterns observed in prison victimization. Noble's work supports the importation theory of the inmate subculture proposed by Irwin and Cressey. He builds on their theory by advocating for the inclusion of race and other cultural factors concerning the inmate and staff populations into predicative models. He concludes that prisons with greater racial disparities between the inmate and staff populations experience higher staff assault rates