Aspects of the Prison's Social Structure

Weinberg, S. Kirson

doi:10.1086/219003

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“…Early penological research assumed a sociological approach and highlighted the salience of institutional-level factors as crucial for understanding both adaptive and maladaptive responses to the prison environment. Research in this vein (e.g., Clemmer, 1940; Hayner & Ash, 1940; Sykes, 1958; Weinberg, 1942) posited that various deprivations, pains of imprisonment, or prisonization experiences contributed to violence and noncompliance occurring among inmates. Examples of these structural factors included overcrowding, poor living conditions and inadequate food, lack of vocational opportunities and other programming, inconsistent and inequitable enforcement of prison rules and regulations, and physical and verbal abuse from correctional officers and administrators.…”

Section: Theoretical Background: the Importation Model Of Inmate Behamentioning

confidence: 99%

Murder as Importation: An Empirical Study of the Continuity of Homicide Offending From Community to Confinement

DeLisi

Butler

2020

Homicide Studies

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Prison murder is the most severe form of institutional violence but its exceedingly low prevalence has limited prior research. Recent studies of prison murders make clear that serious, violent, and chronic career criminals are most likely to perpetrate inmate murders with equivocal evidence of the role of prior homicide offending on prison murder. Using retrospective administrative data from 1,005 prisoners selected from the southwestern United States, the current study examined whether homicide offending in the community is itself an importation factor that is useful for understanding prison murder and thus can be used to understand continuity in homicidal offending from the community to confinement context. Rare events logistic regression models found that individuals sentenced for first-degree murder are more likely to perpetrate prison murder. A separate rare events logistic regression model with any type of homicide commitment offense as a predictor provided similar findings suggesting these effects are robust to model specification. Given its gravity and fundamental threat to prison safety and security, we encourage data collection and additional research on prison murder and the inmates that perpetrate it.

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Section: Theoretical Background: the Importation Model Of Inmate Behamentioning

confidence: 99%

Murder as Importation: An Empirical Study of the Continuity of Homicide Offending From Community to Confinement

DeLisi

Butler

2020

Homicide Studies

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“…Similarly, an environment that is excessively punitive might also be negatively associated with mental health. Such environments likely set inmates on edge, making them overly hostile or even depressed (Sykes 1958; Weinberg 1942).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Inmate Mental Health and the Pains of Imprisonment

Edgemon

Clay-Warner

2018

Society and Mental Health

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We use national data on 5,552 inmates and the 214 state prisons in which they reside to examine how prison conditions are associated with mental health symptoms net of individual-level factors. Structural equation models indicate that prison overcrowding and punitiveness are positively related to both depression and hostility, while the availability of work assignments is negatively related to both mental health indicators. The proportion of inmates whose home is more than 50 miles from the prison was positively associated with depression. Inmates reported higher levels of hostility when the prison did not allow television and there was a recent prison suicide. These results suggest the importance of examining a wide range of prison deprivations in research on inmate well-being to lay the groundwork for understanding the mechanisms through which prison deprivations are linked to mental health.

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“…However, the interviews could not be recorded and the information collected from the prisoners and prison officials were used throughout the text indirectly. (Clemmer, 1958;Hayner & Ash, 1939;Shrag, 1954;Weinberg, 1942), but also to studies specifically directed to the emergence of rebellions and the operation of groups of prisoners in these events (Sykes, 1974(Sykes, [1958; Maccormick, 1954;Kimball, 1987 and1991;Artières, 2003;Favard, 1981 and1987;Adams 1994). Moreover, the analysis that we intend to present can contribute to the field of studies on organized crime (Lampe, 2008;Ziegler, 2003;Lupo, 2002;Fontanaud, 2002;Hagan, 1983;Huff, 1990;Paoli, 2002), by outlining the peculiarity of the structure and the dynamics of a criminal group that originated in the prison system.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%