The Caged Melting Pot: Toward an Understanding of the Consequences ofDesegregation in Prisons

This article tests the equal status contact hypothesis in the aftermath of desegregation in the TX prison system. This study uses 10 years of inmate-on-inmate assault data and compares the rates of violence among inmates racially integrated in a double cell vs inmates racially segregated in a double...

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Published in:Law & society review 2002-12, Vol.36 (4), p.743-781
Main Authors: Marquart, James W, Trulson, Chad
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Prisons
Race relations
Texas
USA
Violence
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