Prison Gangs and the Community Responsibility System

An Overview of the Challenge of Prison Gangs

1 Corrections Management Quarterly, 2001, 5(1), 1–9 © 2001 Aspen Publishers, Inc. A persistently disruptive force in correctional facilities is prison gangs. Prison gangs disrupt correctional programming, threaten the safety of inmates and staff, and erode institutional quality of life. The authors review the history of, and correctional mechanisms to cope with prison gangs. A suppression strat...

The Responsibility of the Academic System to the Community: Designing a Model to Assess Its Current and Desirable Status

The purpose of this study was to design a model for assessing the social responsibility of the academic system.The research method was mixed exploration method. In qualitative part, 10 academic experts were selected for confirmation of qualitative research findings and in quantitative part, 259 faculty members were selected by stratified random sampling. In the first step, by reviewing the lite...

The sociological study of the prison community.

Scheduling Gangs in a Distributed System

In this paper we study the performance of parallel job scheduling in a distributed system. A special type of scheduling called gang scheduling is considered. In gang scheduling jobs consist of a number of interacting tasks, which are scheduled to run simultaneously on distinct processors. Two gang scheduling policies are used to schedule parallel jobs for two different types of job parallelism....

Establishing online trust through a community responsibility system

Much of the research on trust building in electronic commerce takes a descriptive approach. The question of what social structures are more appropriate to promote trust in the online world has not been extensively studied. We analyze in this paper, using a prescriptive approach, how a certain social structure—a community responsibility system, supported by present technology, can be set up. We ...