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5 J. Offender Counseling, Services & Rehab. 1 (1980-1981)

handle is hein.journals/wjor5 and id is 1 raw text is: EDITORIAL HYPOTHESES ON PRISON VIOLENCE Early 1980 riots in the Santa Fe, New Mexico penitentiary and the sprawling black ghetto of Miami, Florida-both nightmarish for the intensity.of the anger and brutality that occur- red-prompt a look back into recent history for relevant hypotheses of explanations. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, I took part in the work of the President's Crime Commission and the President's Commission on Civil Disorders. Both national bodies were concerned with escalating violence in the nation (while the presidency was committed to escalating violence in Southeast Asia); one emphasized violence in the context of urban crime, the other insurrectional types of violent confrontations between predominantly black urban neighborhoods and predominantly white agents of law enforcement, including local and state police forces, the National Guard and the United States Ar- my. One much studied facet of the work of the two commissions was the surprising extent to which the people who were accused and ar- rested on charges of violent conduct had extensive prison records. Clearly, the fact is that many governmental and government- supported organizations with responsibilities for monitoring urban violence, in general, and prison violence, in particular, learned little or nothing from the blistering domestic violence and prison riots of a decade or so ago. Therefore, they were unprepared to either predict or respond with prophylactic advantages to the Santa Fe and Miami tragedies. Assuming, arguendo, there were no fertile or provocative insights from the massive data collected on the hundreds of riots and Journal of Offender Counseling, Services & Rehabilitation. Vol. 5(I1), Fall 1980 ©1981 by The Haworth Press. All rights reserved.

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