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Improving Correctional Officer Safety: Reducing Inmate Weapons. Final report

Publication year: 2004 | Cataloged on: Dec. 05, 2007
ANNOTATION: The making of weapons from commissary or other commonly available goods by inmates is examined. Sections of this report are: background; progress of study phases; summary; copies of surveys used; submission to the IRB; survey results paper (published in Injury Prevention, 2006, v. 12, p. 195-198) entitled "Inmate-Made Weapons: Assessing the Injury Risk" by Jennifer M. Lincoln, Li-Hui Chen, Julie Samia Mair, Paul J. Biermann, and Susan P. Baker; "Current Results on Non-Metals Detection Study" by J.C. Roberts and Biermann; and "Improving Correctional Officer Safety: Reducing Inmate Weapons" published in Corrections Today, February 2006, p. 68-70.
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