Understanding and Reducing Prison Violence considers both the individual and prison characteristics associated with violence perpetration and violent victimization among both prison inmates and staff. Prison violence is not a random process; rates of violence vary across prisons and the odds of perpetrating violence or experiencing violent victimization vary across inmates and staff. A comprehensive understanding of the causes of prison violence therefore requires consideration of both individual and prison characteristics. Building on large dataset comprising 5,500 inmates and 1,800 officers across 45 prisons located across two of the United States (Ohio and Kentucky), this book showcases one of the largest and most comprehensive studies of prisons carried out to date. It considers both the implications of the study for theories of prison violence and the implications of the study for preventing violence in prisons. It will be of interest to academics, practitioners, and policy makers alike.

Understanding and Reducing Prison Violence considers both the individual and prison characteristics associated with violence perpetration and violent victimization among both prison inmates and staff. Prison violence is not a random process; rates of violence vary across prisons and the odds of perpetrating violence or experiencing violent victimization vary across inmates and staff. A comprehensive understanding of the causes of prison violence therefore requires consideration of both individual and prison characteristics. Building on large dataset comprising 5,500 inmates and 1,800 officers across 45 prisons located across two of the United States (Ohio and Kentucky), this book showcases one of the largest and most comprehensive studies of prisons carried out to date. It considers both the implications of the study for theories of prison violence and the implications of the study for preventing violence in prisons. It will be of interest to academics, practitioners, and policy makers alike.

This study explores the shared history of the French empire from the perspective of material culture in order to re-evaluate the participation of colonial, Creole, and indigenous agency in the construction of imperial spaces. The decentred approach to a global history of the French colonial realm allows a new understanding of power relations in different locales. Providing case studies from four parts of the French empire, the book draws on illustrative evidence from the French archives in Aix-en-Provence and Paris as well as local archives in each colonial location. The case studies, in the Caribbean, Canada, Africa, and India, each examine building projects to show the mixed group of planners, experts, and workers, the composite nature of building materials, and elements of different 'glocal' styles that give the empire its concrete manifestation. -- .

This study explores the shared history of the French empire from the perspective of material culture in order to re-evaluate the participation of colonial, Creole, and indigenous agency in the construction of imperial spaces. The decentred approach to a global history of the French colonial realm allows a new understanding of power relations in different locales. Providing case studies from four parts of the French empire, the book draws on illustrative evidence from the French archives in Aix-en-Provence and Paris as well as local archives in each colonial location. The case studies, in the Caribbean, Canada, Africa, and India, each examine building projects to show the mixed group of planners, experts, and workers, the composite nature of building materials, and elements of different 'glocal' styles that give the empire its concrete manifestation. -- .

Wie schreibt man Geschichte? Welche Moglichkeiten gibt es, sich mit Geschichte zu beschaftigen, sie darzustellen und an andere zu vermitteln? Die spatmittelalterliche und fruhneuzeitliche Geschichtsschreibung ist ein zentrales Experimentierfeld der Historiografie, in das die hier ausgewahlten und prasentierten Beispiele Einblicke vermitteln. Die damit angebotene Neustrukturierung des historiografischen Feldes geht weit uber das hinaus, was die Historiografiegeschichtsschreibung des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts herausgestellt hat, und erweitert den Horizont uber die Konstrukte moderner Geschichtswissenschaft hinaus erheblich. Dieses Quellenhandbuch richtet sich an ein interdisziplinares, universitares Publikum: an fortgeschrittene Studierende und Promovierende und an Lehrende fur die Verwendung im Unterricht oder an Forscher/innen, die sich uber die neueren Tendenzen auf dem Gebiet der Historiografiegeschichte informieren wollen. Der Einsatz des Handbuchs bietet sich vor allem fur neue Masterstudiengange mit historischem oder kulturwissenschaftlichem Schwerpunkt an (Geschichte des Spatmittelalters, der Renaissance, der Fruhen Neuzeit, Kultur-, Literatur-, Kirchen-, Wissensgeschichte etc.), weil damit Grundlagenwissen der Historiografiegeschichte quellennah und auf dem neuesten Stand der Forschung vermittelt werden kann."

In the history of the modern state, Africa has been continually depicted in sharp contrast to Europe and its ostensibly special developmental path. However, Benjamin Steiner shows how the formation of nation states in Europe depended on European involvement in the larger Atlantic world, and writes a history of knowledge and encounter between France and parts of Africa during the time of Jean-Baptiste Colbert.