Alchemizing violent and toxic prisons into safe and healthy campuses

Nancy Wolff, Joseph O’Connor and Summer Sprofera

Chapter 34 in Research Handbook on Violent Crime and Society, 2025, pp 558-573 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Preventing violence inside prisons begins with the conviction that the people living and working there are worthy of safety and protection. Because the labeling words of inmate, guard and prisons shade relative worthiness, this chapter uses the words ‘students’, ‘teachers’, and ‘campus’, respectively, to refer to people convicted of harmful behavior, people keeping them safe and the places where they learn and grow. Our blueprint for violence prevention on campuses with dense and varied violence profiles is comprehensive, integrated across types of prevention and subgroups within the community; collaborative and cooperative; and supported by a call for new anti-violence legislation, a leadership style and social norms that all adhere to societal beliefs of worth, intention and investment that are universally ascribed to students and learning environments. Non-violence will beget non-violence only if we believe that the students living on these public campuses are worthy of safe, harm-free, prosocial environments.

Keywords: Victimization; Perpetration; Violence prevention; Prisons; Correctional settings (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035317851
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