“We Are People Who Kill…Murder Machines” An Empirical Study of Lifetime Inmate Homicide among Capital Defendants

Inmate murder is a grave threat to institutional safety in correctional settings, unfortunately relatively little prior research has studied it. The current study analyzed data from 636 capital murderers sentenced to death in California of whom 6% had murdered other inmates during their confinement...

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Main Author: DeLisi, Matt (Author)
Contributors: Butler, H. Daniel ; Minkler, Molly ; Caudill, Jonathan Wendell 1977- ; Trulson, Chad R.
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2023
In: American journal of criminal justice
Year: 2023, Volume: 48, Issue: 6, Pages: 1248-1262
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
Institutional misconduct
Security threat group
Psychopathy
Prison violence
Prison murder
Inmate murder