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From time to time, riots in prisons have come to public attention in the form of dramatic media coverage of a wave of prison rioting or an account of a particularly violent incident in a single institution. But, for most of the two-hundred-year history of the majority of prisons, prison riots have not been in the foreground of debates about penal policy and practice.
The major political and historical event that marks the path of prison history is the riot.
(Berkman, 1979, p. 34)
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Adams, R. (1994). Prison Riots: Problems and Perspectives. In: Campling, J. (eds) Prison Riots in Britain and the USA. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23587-2_1
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