ABSTRACT
Key findings from the statistical models described in Chapter 5 are integrated to assess the applicability of a multilevel social control–opportunity framework to understanding inmate violence, inmate victimization by violence, and officer safety, and to introduce discussion of how these findings might be considered for informing strategies to reduce these problems. This study underscores an appreciation for both inmate and officer effects on in-prison violence operating at both the individual and prison levels, and these effects encompass not only processes that transpire during confinement but also individual and compositional factors that precede imprisonment and work in prison. Considering all of these factors simultaneously will be challenging for devising effective policies for crime control in prison. Yet, doing so will maximize the safety of both inmates and staff while also avoiding sacrifices to programming and the freedoms of which inmates are currently allowed to take advantage.
