Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Unit: Institute of Criminology'

This thesis examines the cultural dynamics within a specialist policing department with a particular focus on the issue of gender. It explores the experiences of a sample group of police officers working within the firearms unit of one metropolitan police force. Culture, the history of policing, specialist departments and the introduction of women are considered in order to gain an in depth understanding of the organisation. Previous research into police culture suggests masculine values remain intensely dominant, particularly within the firearms arena, ultimately creating an environment, which outwardly appears unattractive to women. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with twenty-one police officers including eleven male and ten female officers from Constable to Inspector rank. The research focused on the pre-joining experiences of the officers involved and also their personal experiences of life on the firearms unit. The study identified that the issues within the firearms unit appear not to be about gender: there was little evidence to suggest that officers within the firearms unit were treated differently or unfairly due to their gender. What was apparent was the presence of in-group/out-group distinctions, with an overwhelming desire from both genders to be accepted and to "fit-in". This has implications with regards to the research concerning occupational cultures, including police culture in particular.

Bibliography: leaves 62-66.
In order to assist honours students and researchers in the Criminology Department at theUniversity of Cape Town to fully utilise resources available through the Internet and other online databases, an online electronic research skills tutorial was developed and implemented. The aim of this research is to assess whether this tutorial is a useful and efficient method of imparting information literacy skills and assisting users to use the rich array of information available electronically. The concept of information literacy is reviewed internationally and in South Africa, in order to place this research within this framework. Concepts of benchmarking and best practice are examined to assess whether the tutorial meets these criteria. Internet trainer certification is studied as well as the importance of linking information tutorials to specific subjects and integrating them with the curriculum. In developing and implementing this tutorial, other information literacy initiatives and Internet tutorials were examined to provide background information and to inform the construction of the tutorial. Initiatives at the University of Cape Town were explored to avoid duplication and overlap and to build on prior training of students and researchers. The practical component of this research reviews the implementation of the tutorial with 13 participants. The participants completed pre-tutorial assessment questionnaires, using open and closed questions, to assess their knowledge and skills. The questionnaire responses were scored on a scale of I to 5 and represented in graphical form. The participants completed the online tutorial, which introduced important sites for criminologists that can be found on the Internet as well as in other electronic databases, and explored how to use the Internet to support research. The tools and techniques to improve Internet searching were reviewed with the participants, as was the critical thinking needed to evaluate information found on the Internet. A post-course evaluation was completed to assess whether the participants had found this a useful experience, whether the course was at an appropriate level and whether the objectives of the course had been achieved. A self-administered follow-up evaluation questionnaire was completed 2 to 3 months after completion of the tutorial in order to assess whether the information contained in the tutorial had been used, sites visited and whether in retrospect, the participants found the experience a useful one. The findings of these questionnaires are analysed and presented in graphical form on a scale of 1 to 5. The analysis of the research shows that the participants of this case study found the experience of doing thc online research skills tutorial a valuable one and that it assisted in developing new skills and in providing a window into all the electronic resources available in their field.

Three UBC researchers have been awarded the 2007 NSERC Synergy Award for Innovation. A development of advanced pulp screen rotors that employ innovative energy-saving technology has garnered a 2007 NSERC Synergy Award. The 2007 Leo Derikx Award from the NSERC Synergy Awards has been awarded to UBC's Mineral Deposit Research Unit. A UBC collaboration with Weyerhaeuser, an international forest products company, and Paprican, the Pulp and Paper Research Insittute of Canada, is among the recipients of a 2007 NSERC Synergy Award for Innovation.

While much has been written on the Australian film and television industry, little has been presented by actual producers, filmmakers and technicians of their time and experiences within that same industry. Similarly, with historical documentaries, it has been academics rather than filmmakers who have led the debate. This thesis addresses this shortcoming and bridges the gap between practitioner experience and intellectual discussion, synthesising the debate and providing an important contribution from a filmmaker-academic, in its own way unique and insightful. The thesis is presented in two voices. First, my voice, the voice of memoir and recollected experience of my screen adventures over 38 years within the Australian industry, mainly producing historical documentaries for the ABC and the SBS. This is represented in italics. The second half and the alternate chapters provide the industry framework in which I worked with particular emphasis on documentaries and how this evolved and developed over a 40-year period, from 1970 to 2010. Within these two voices are three layers against which this history is reviewed and presented. Forming the base of the pyramid is the broad Australian film industry made up of feature films, documentary, television drama, animation and other types and styles of production. Above this is the genre documentary within this broad industry, and making up the small top tip of the pyramid, the sub-genre of historical documentary. These form the vertical structure within which industry issues are discussed. Threading through it are the duel determinants of production: ‘the market’ and ‘funding’. Underpinning the industry is the involvement of government, both state and federal, forming the three dimensional matrix for the thesis. For over 100 years the Australian film industry has depended on government support through subsidy, funding mechanisms, development assistance, broadcast policy and legislative provisions. This thesis aims to weave together these industry layers, binding them with the determinants of the market and funding, and immersing them beneath layers of government legislation and policy to present a new view of the Australian film industry.

Il lavoro è stato suddiviso in tre macro-aree. Una prima riguardante un'analisi teorica di come funzionano le intrusioni, di quali software vengono utilizzati per compierle, e di come proteggersi (usando i dispositivi che in termine generico si possono riconoscere come i firewall). Una seconda macro-area che analizza un'intrusione avvenuta dall'esterno verso dei server sensibili di una rete LAN. Questa analisi viene condotta sui file catturati dalle due interfacce di rete configurate in modalità promiscua su una sonda presente nella LAN. Le interfacce sono due per potersi interfacciare a due segmenti di LAN aventi due maschere di sotto-rete differenti. L'attacco viene analizzato mediante vari software. Si può infatti definire una terza parte del lavoro, la parte dove vengono analizzati i file catturati dalle due interfacce con i software che prima si occupano di analizzare i dati di contenuto completo, come Wireshark, poi dei software che si occupano di analizzare i dati di sessione che sono stati trattati con Argus, e infine i dati di tipo statistico che sono stati trattati con Ntop. Il penultimo capitolo, quello prima delle conclusioni, invece tratta l'installazione di Nagios, e la sua configurazione per il monitoraggio attraverso plugin dello spazio di disco rimanente su una macchina agent remota, e sui servizi MySql e DNS. Ovviamente Nagios può essere configurato per monitorare ogni tipo di servizio offerto sulla rete.

碩士
中原大學
會計研究所
93
Summary Traditionally college education is considered one part of the higher education. However, with the acceleration of junior colleges transforming to technological institute and university of science and technology, along with our country’s entrance into the World Trade Organization (WTO), it is unavoidable that our government will allow foreign universities to set up branch schools in Taiwan. Private universities and colleges in turn face more and more problems in recruiting new students. In addition, the subsidies from the government to the private schools are decreasing year by year and are far from being enough to meet the demands of every school. Furthermore, the government revenue is shrinking because of the economic depression. Therefore, how private schools could utilize the limited resources to make it through the difficult situation is an issue worth to be explored. Two major subjects in management decision are achievement evaluation and cost control, and responsibility center system is widely used in business organization for achievement evaluation and cost control at present. What is called the system of responsibility center is when an organization divide itself into different responsibility centers in order to evaluate achievement and control cost. Each responsibility center makes it own budget, accumulates its real income and cost, and analyze and compare its difference in income and cost, so that the organization could use the references to evaluate achievement, control cost and make various decisions. Activity-Based Costing System has been widely used and developed abroad. Many researchers in our country have done research to calculate the cost of goods with ABC in many different fields in recent years. The research objects include profit undertakings and non-for-profit undertakings. The traditional method of calculating the cost with working activities has been replaced by the concept of calculating the cost of goods with Activity-Based Costing System. Under the circumstances that it is becoming more and more difficult for the operating of private schools, the correct study of student unit costs, proper achievement evaluation, and appropriate cost control are urgently in need. As a result, the theme of this research is on the establishment of the system of responsibility center in private universities and colleges, discussing the related literature and regulations, analyzing case studies, and calculating the student unit costs, thus serves as reference to the decision making of education administrators. The purpose of this study is as follows: 一、 construct the model of calculating the income or cost of every responsibility center with Activity-Based Costing System and describe the content and structure of the responsibility center system. 二、 Second, employ the Activity-Based Costing System model developed by this research to calculate the income or cost of every responsibility center and acquire the student cost of each teaching center, and then serve as the reference to the decision making of education administrators. According to the result of this research, the following conclusions could be made: 一、 The current problems in dealing with accounting information: If the materials in the accounting journal ledger system can not be utilized directly and need additional software written by information engineers, the materials would lack instantaneity; the expenses are not sorted in accordance with the departments which used them directly, thus lowering the validity of achievement evaluation; the administrative units are responsible for the planning, control and execution of the business, but do not computerize the relevant records of the acquired resources, which in turn makes it impossible to separate the responsibility of sharing the cost and affects the accuracy in calculating the cost. 二、 the results of analyzing the case financial materials (1) Tuition, incidental expenses and subsidies are the major the sources of revenue. However, with the limit on the number of classes schools are allowed to enroll students and on the floor square measure, there is little room to raise the revenue of tuition and incidental expenses. (2) Standard for collecting the tuition and incidental expenses is one of the main reason that affects the income of each responsibility center. (3) Because personnel expenses are the major expenditure in private schools, the amount of personnel expenses would be bigger along with the growing number of personnel in administrative centers. (4) The unit cost of students in departments in the environment designing group is relatively higher than that of students in other departments. (5) The profits of centers in the commerce management group are higher than that of centers in the environment designing group. (6) the newly-set and small-scale departments produced the effects of large-scale economy.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1993.
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碩士
南華大學
管理科學研究所
93
This research focuses on whether entry level supervisors in the high-tech industry have the same level of satisfaction regarding the work performance of university and polytechnic graduates, and whether the level of satisfaction is related to population statistical variables. 　 　　Using balance scorecard as an evaluation tool, this research attempts evaluate the work performance of university and polytechnic graduates from both younger and older generations using the 4 aspects of balance scorecard, and investigate entry level supervisors’ level of satisfaction regarding the work performance of younger and older generation employees graduating from these two systems. The results will be used in high-tech industry human resources management, and will also serve as a reference for people who are already working or are prepared to enter the workplace, in order to improve their personal capabilities. 　 　　The research results indicated that the work performance of polytechnic graduates is lower than that of university graduates in the areas of finance and customer relations; the communication and negotiation skills and service attitudes of polytechnic graduates require particular attention. Familiarity in operational procedure and technical development needs to be reinforced in university graduates . There are no significant differences in work performance in the areas of internal procedures and learning to grow. At the same time, employees’ evaluation results differ according to differences in supervisors’ academic background and seniority. Usually supervisors with higher academic achievement will be less satisfied about employees’ work performance.

Thesis abstract The thesis deals with expert discussions on economic criminality in Czechoslovakia during the 1970s and 1980s. The first chapter introduces the issue in the macroeconomic and social context and outlines the dual way in which the practice of illegal enrichment was depicted in contemporary film and TV-series production. The second chapter introduces dominant authoritative discourse and its concept of economic crime as a phenomenon alien to the socialist regime. This view has also been reflected in the legislative adjustment, as well as party and government measures to dispose of the undesirable phenomenon. The following third chapter focuses on contemporary criminology science as an expert community, whose primary focus was on analyzing and proposing measures to address various crime-related problems. The institutional integration of the Research Institute of Criminology, the main platform of criminological research in the state, to the Prosecutor General's Office, and the influence of Marxist science on criminological methodology, reflected the authoritative discourse into professional discussions. The content analysis of twenty selected texts of non- public professional provenance shows in several areas the extent to which the influence of ideology was noticeable and, on the contrary, how...

碩士
國立中央大學
數學研究所
95
“The Math Creative pedagogic Contest” was pooled by the national science Council scientific education department and the National Central University Math department. Since the contest has exhibit for five sessions, which has attract and support by many participants, and these participants are school teachers. Therefore the contest obtains 250 surpass creative works, and there have over 10 popular units form these creative works. After accumulating these creative works from different units, people would ask themselves questions from the same teaching unit what is their main gold toward education? How do these participants reveal their creativity? Does teachers’ creative design can initiated students’ motivation to study or help students cultivate their creation? This research paper is based on compare the creative works in the same teaching unit (Pythagorean Theorem) and the valuable sources are from “The Math Creative Pedagogic Contest”. Try to analyze each participant’s main points and the difference from the same unit; as well as, analyze how these participants reveal their creativity. From the analysis and organization of this research paper hope that can improve teachers’ teach skills and give suggestion to their creative works. This proposal provides teachers other sources when they are preparing their teaching materials. Hopefully, it can combine all the advantages of these creative works and make another creative teaching material.

It is widely accepted by today’s Australian society that education, in particular, be inclusive and accessible for all students. Teachers regularly report a perceived limit to their skills set in relation to working with students with a disability, particularly when the students are in a mainstream setting. This perception has also been identified within cohorts of physical education (PE) teachers with many reporting they do not feel confident to teach students with a disability in a physical activity setting. Research has shown that PE teachers often feel underprepared to work with students with a disability, particularly in PE classes where activities may need to be modified or adapted for full participation (Forlin & Chambers, 2011; Barber, 2018). The purpose of this study, adopting a phenomenological approach, was to demonstrate the importance of undergraduate tertiary PE students participating in an inclusion and diversity or Adapted PE program, and to understand the value of that experience. The mixed methods research methodology with a focus on phenomenology was developed using a triangulation methodology that used three phases of research to produce data that would address a set of sub- aims relating to the undergraduate PE student experience and the perspectives of experts regarding inclusive practices. Phase 1 of the research involved surveying undergraduate PE students participating in an Inclusion and Diversity in Physical Activity unit in an inner-city university in the west of Melbourne, Australia using the Physical Educators’ Attitude Towards Teaching Individuals with a Disability (PEATID-11) questionnaire pre and post-completion of the Inclusion and Diversity in Physical Activity unit. As a questionnaire was used, a positivist paradigm was adopted for this quantitative phase. One hundred and twenty two responses were collected and of that, 29 were completed both pre and post-completion of the unit. Results indicated that there were significant differences to the attitudes of the undergraduate PE students’ pre and post the unit, which is supported by previous research findings using this instrument. The PEATID-11 data results found students showed positive changes in their attitudes and behaviours after completing the unit, as they scored higher in the post-mean scores in each category of the questionnaire indicating a more positive intent post-completion of the unit and demonstrating the importance of the inclusion of the unit in the undergraduate PE degree. A prediction that therefore can be made is that undergraduate PE students, who have specific, focused Adapted PE training, as a part of their undergraduate PE studies, will have a more favourable attitude towards inclusion and working with students with a disability. Phase 2 of the research utilised focus groups with the same undergraduate PE student cohort using a phenomenological lens to capture their ‘lived experience’ of participating in the Inclusion and Diversity in Physical Activity unit. Three focus groups, with a total of 22 undergraduate PE students were conducted with students post the completion of the unit. This approach has provided a data that describes the students’ experiences and learnings in their own voices that has not been a feature of earlier quantitative studies. The research has provided an additional perspective to the current body of knowledge in the research conducted around the impact of Adapted PE courses on the attitudes, confidence and skill set of undergraduate PE students and has identified keys trends, themes and issues in relation to the experiences and learnings of students engaged in the Inclusion and Diversity in Physical Activity unit at Victoria University. Results of this phase of the research showed that the undergraduate PE students did report the value the experience and found it to be ‘life changing’ and useful. The third phase of the research involved the completion of 8 individual interviews with industry education experts in the field of PE and inclusion. This last phase of the research was designed to investigate in what way how inclusion teacher training was viewed and how important it was considered to be by experts in the field. Findings of this stage of the research overwhelmingly support the inclusion of Adapted PE, inclusion and diversity training in undergraduate PE degrees. This was evidenced by more favourable attitudes towards working with students with a disability at the completion of an inclusive PE unit and positive responses to focus group questions on the impact of the inclusive PE unit. The three phases of the research support the importance of including an inclusive PE program in an undergraduate PE degree. This research supports the literature that clearly demonstrates that preservice and undergraduate teachers who have had experience in an Adapted Physical Education unit as part of their studies, which included theory and practice, could make a difference to the predisposition of their preparedness to be more inclusive. (Hodge et al., 2002). Additionally, this research adds to the body of knowledge in providing undergraduate PE student voices together with expert educators’ voices regarding the importance of ‘hands on inclusive learning’. The findings that detail more favourable attitudes post-completion of the inclusive PE unit in association with the positive ‘lived experience’ data, prompted the recommendations of including mandated inclusive education and training for physical education teachers (both undergraduate and practicing) and the requirement of inclusive practice training being provided within an experiential context. It is anticipated that the findings of this research will serve as evidence to support the development of undergraduate PE courses and foster further research in regards to inclusive education and training for physical educators.

碩士
世新大學
企業管理研究所(含碩專班)
99
This study aims to explore the relationship between paternalistic leadership and organizational citizenship behavior. The main purposes are to: 1. Investigate current situation of paternalistic leadership at System Manufacturing Center of Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology. 2. Analyze the status quo of organizational citizenship behavior at System Manufacturing Center of Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology. 3. Understand the relationship between paternalistic leadership and organizational citizenship behavior at System Manufacturing Center of Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology. 4. Establish the prediction power of the relationship bteween paternalistic leadership and organizational citizenship behavior at System Manufacturing Center of Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology. 5. Make recommendations for administrators and decision-makers of the military unit for future strategic planning and organizational development. In order to attain the above mentioned goals, this study uses an established questionnaire to help answer the research questions. Utilizing descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson product-moment correlation, and Multiple stepwise regression analysis, the results are summarized as follows: 1.Majority of the leaders at System Manufacturing Center of Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology demonstrate paternalistic leadership behavior. 2.Majority of the staff members at System Manufacturing Center of Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology demonstrate organizational citizenship behavior. 3. There is no significant difference amongst various demographic backgrounds of staff members and their awareness of leaders' paternalistic leadership style. 4.There is some difference amongst various demographic backgrounds of staff members and their organizational citizenship behavior. 5.There is a positive correlation between leaders' paternalistic leadership style and staff members' organizational citizebship behavior. 6.The leaders' paternalistic leadership can predict staff members' organizational citizenship behavior effectively.

In Australian Rules football (AF), kick skill performance involvements, notably the drop punt, are statistically strong contributors towards team match success. The start of a National women’s AF competition (AFLW) in 2017 created opportunity for new knowledge to be established around the characteristics of AFLW athletes’ skilled performances. Using developments in inertial measurement unit (IMU) technology and analytical methods, this thesis takes a multi-disciplinary approach to analysing AFLW skilled performances and subsequently proposes a concept of a semi-automated AF kick type classification system for skill monitoring in an applied environment. Specifically, the thesis: 1) evaluates the research literature on machine learning for sport-specific movement recognition, 2) determines the importance of AFLW athlete skilled performance indicator contributions during match play, 3) defines AFLW drop punt kick kinematics, and 4) evaluates AF kick type classification models using IMUs as a proof-of-concept to support further developments in the area. Understanding analytical methods previously implemented with IMU or computer vision data and the evaluated capacity of these models in sport-specific movement recognition literature, is important in the adaptation for, and application towards new problems in sport. The first part of this thesis focuses on the experimental set-up, data pre-processing, and model development methods in the relevant literature on recognition of sport-specific movements in-field using IMU or computer vision technology. Of the 52 studies identified, 29 used IMUs, 22 used vision data and one study integrated both technologies. Supervised machine learning models were the dominant approach for developing sport specific movements recognition systems. Although nine studies implemented deep learning algorithms which comparatively indicated superior results to machine learning models, and demonstrated the advantages and potential of these model types. This study also highlights the importance of considering the model and overall system development in relation to the targeted sports movement(s) when progressing future research in the field. The applications of IMUs for sport skill recognition and subsequently performance analysis in-situation demonstrated in the literature may be beneficial in AF. As AF matches are technically skilled in nature, this thesis sought to investigate relationships of AFLW athlete skill performances in explaining team quarter and match success which knowledge was previously limited. Performance indicator distributions in explaining match quarter outcomes show the strongest skilled contributions from key high performing athletes, and the overall team strongest features related to kick performance indicators. Considering the importance of the kick in AF, the thesis then continued to define the kinematics of AFLW athlete’s drop punt kicks across leg preferences which was unknown. Several key differences from men’s AF kicks were found, also, women’s kick movement patterns quantified which is beneficial for specific coaching practices. Developments in IMU use for sport-specific movement recognition through machine learning models demonstrate advantages in sporting performance analysis applications. In the final section, these technological developments are investigated for the concept of a semi-automated AF kick monitoring system using IMUs. The work is applied in an AFLW training environment as a unique study for capturing the importance kick skill performance towards team match success and differentiation from men’s AF kick biomechanics. The findings indicate that kick types can be sufficiently distinguished from one another which creates scope for further applied work in AF training sessions. Overall, the work in this thesis is the first to establish the biomechanical characteristics of elite women’s AF kicks and enhances the knowledge of skilled performances in the AFLW. Furthermore, it is the first to implement IMUs for on-field AF kick recognition. Increasing automation in sport-specific movement recognition can be applied in AF kick skill monitoring; particularly as a unique forefront in AFLW sport science applications towards kick performance improvement. The methods used and findings of this thesis can also be transferred to other elite women’s team sporting leagues involving kicking actions such as Rugby and Gaelic football.

L’étude qui nous concerne vise à mieux comprendre la violence en milieu carcéral. C’est à l’aide d’entrevues menées auprès de treize hommes incarcérés à l’Unité spéciale de détention, une unité canadienne spécifiquement conçue pour loger des personnes qui ont fait usage de violence intra murale ou sont soupçonné de l’avoir fait, que nous avons tenté d’atteindre l’objectif principal de ce projet. Plus spécifiquement, le point de vue des participants a été recueilli sur l’incarcération, sur les moyens utilisés afin de s’accoutumer aux défis de l’enfermement ainsi que la manière dont les individus justifient l’usage de violence dans ce contexte. Les résultats de nos analyses suggèrent que le milieu carcéral est un monde hostile et imprévisible où les individus se perçoivent constamment vulnérables à de multiples formes d’agression. Placés en hyper vigilance et orientés vers la survie, les détenus font usage de diverses stratégies d’adaptation afin de répondre aux situations difficiles qu’ils rencontrent en contexte de perte de liberté. La violence représente donc un des moyens dont disposent les individus pour survivre à l’intérieur des murs. Les diverses formes d’adaptation violente rencontrées en milieu carcéral peuvent ainsi informer sur les enjeux de survie présents dans un milieu et donc, du risque de violence ou de victimisation dans ce milieu, que cette violence soit interpersonnelle, collective, auto dirigée, axée sur la fuite ou contre les biens. Puisque l’usage de violence par une personne engendre une possibilité accrue de choisir la violence pour une autre, et ce, avec les conséquences qui s’en suivent pour les détenus et les membres du personnel, nous avons tenté d’identifier et de comprendre les diverses logiques d’action qui motivent le choix d’avoir recours à la violence dans les institutions carcérales. Or, il appert que certaines caractéristiques des individus tendent à faire augmenter le risque pour une personne d’avoir recours à la violence carcérale. De même, il semble que certaines institutions sont davantage propices à l’usage de violence que d’autres. De surcroît, des éléments appartenant aux individus et au milieu en interrelation semblent favoriser la possibilité qu’un condamné fasse usage de violence intra murale. Ainsi, le recours à la violence est davantage probable si elle est légitimée par les individus et le milieu, si le niveau d’adhésion aux valeurs des sous-cultures délinquantes des individus est élevé et si la philosophie du milieu en favorise le maintien, si des groupes influents en quête de contrôle et de pouvoir sont présents dans le milieu et qu’un individu désire y être affilié, s’il y a présence de marchés illicites comme réponse à la privation et qu’un individu y participe ou encore, si le milieu et l’individu sont pris dans l’engrenage d’un climat de survie. Par conséquent, une réflexion concernant le sentiment de sécurité préoccupant les reclus, sentiment qui est un besoin fondamental chez tous les êtres humains, un retour sur les divers modèles théoriques en fonction des données que nous avons obtenues ainsi qu’une réflexion portant sur les moyens dont disposent les individus et le milieu afin de diminuer les possibilités que la violence soit utilisée, ont été amorcées en conclusion.
The purpose of this study is to gain a better understanding of prison violence. To meet this goal, thirteen men were interviewed at the Special Handling Unit, a Canadian unit specifically designed to accommodate the security needs of individuals who have previously used, or are suspected of having used, serious acts of violence within a correctional setting. More precisely, the point of view of these men was collected regarding general prison life, the means they use in order to adapt to imprisonment as well as the way they justify the use of violence in this environment. The results of this research project suggest that prisons are hostile and unpredictable environments. Incarcerated individuals perceive a constant threat of violence to themselves. In a constant state of alert to survive, inmates use different strategies to deal with the difficult situations they encounter within the prison walls. Violence is only one of the means used by inmates to adapt to their environment and has many different forms such as interpersonal violence, collective violence, self-directed violence, escapism or destruction. Such violent acts may serve as signs that violence and victimization are taking place in an environment. Since the violent conduct of an individual tends to increase the risk of using violence for another, with the subsequent consequences to inmates and correctional personnel, we attempted to comprehend the different logics that support violent action within prisons. As such, it appears that certain individual traits tend to increase the likelihood that a person will resort to violence as a solution. The data also suggests that violence is a more common response in some institutions rather than in others. Furthermore, this study has found relationships between individual and prison environmental characteristics that tend to highly increase the possibility that an inmate will choose violence. More precisely, it is more probable that violence will be used by a person: if it is legitimized by that individual as well as the environment; if the individual’s level of compliance to the values of delinquent subcultures is high and these subcultures are supported by the philosophy of the environment where he is placed; if influential groups seeking power and control are present within the institution and the individual wishes to associate with such groups; if illicit markets were created in the prison as a response to deprivation and the inmate has involvement in such markets; and if both the individual and the environment are in a state of helplessness due to their focus on survival. In conclusion, a reflection concerning the inmate’s need for safety, which is a common basic need for all human beings, an overview of the data obtained in this project pertaining to theoretical models offered by past literature on prison violence as well as thoughts on strategies available to inmates and prisons to limit the risk of violence being used are presented.