ABSTRACT
There may be no prospect more frightful or abhorrent in modern criminal justice than the prison riot. This is true among prison inmates as well as among their keepers and service providers. While the catastrophic loss of the stability and control that literally define correctional institutions is viewed as the ultimate criminal justice management failure, many researchers in this field believe that there exists a similar, widespread aversion among inmates to upheaval and derangement of the delicately balanced prison microsociety (Shoham et al. 1989).
