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Papers presented before the 77th annual meeting of the Am. academy of political and social science, Philadelphia, Pa., Apr. 13-14, 1973.

Improper attention is given to the diagnosis & classification of offenders sent to prison. An effort should be made to distinguish violent from nonviolent persons sentenced to prison in order better to provide a more appropriate treatment setting for each. Past & current management of correctional instit's is based based primarily on the image, behavior, & potential risk of the violent offender, much to the detriment of the nonviolent inmates who numerically predominate in prison. HA.

Improper attention is given to the diagnosis and classification of offenders sent to prison. An effort should be made to distinguish violent from nonviolent persons sen tenced to prison in order better to provide a more appropriate treatment setting for each. Past and current management of correctional institutions is based primarily on the image, behavior, and potential risk of the violent offender, much to the detriment of the nonviolent inmates who numerically pre dominate in prison.

Violence is generally viewed as some form of physical injury inflicted on others. A brief review of the articles in this volume suggests that the public fear of violence may be greater than the actual amount of violent behavior. Assaultive crimes and other forms of violence are summarized. The dominant, middle-class society morally denounces vio lence, perhaps partly because of a general principle which characterizes every established political power and the need to uphold nonviolence as a means of discouraging attacks against that power. The thesis of a "subculture of violence" is briefly outlined and refers to a system of norms and values set apart from the dominant nonviolent culture and which expect or require the use of violence in many kinds of social relationships.

Violence is generally viewed as some form of physical injury inflicted on others. A brief review of the articles in this issue suggests that the public fear of violence may be greater than the actual amount of violent behavior. Assaultive crimes & other forms of violence are summarized. The dominant, Mc society morally denounces violence, perhaps partly because of a general principle which characterizes every established pol'al power & the need to uphold nonviolence as a means of discouraging attacks against that power. The thesis of a subculture of violence is briefly outlined & refers to a system of norms & values set apart from the dominant nonviolent culture & which expect or require the use of violence in many kinds of SR's. HA.