Bullying among incarcerated young offenders: developing an interview schedule and some preliminary results

Connell, Anne; Farrington, David P.

doi:10.1006/jado.1996.0007

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“…Thus, incorporating officer samples appears an essential component and adds to the developing literature on attitudes towards prisoner bullying (e.g. Connell & Farrington, 1996;Dyson, 2005;Spain, 2005;Ireland, 1999;Ireland et al, 2009). It also fits with an emerging factor in the PES scale, namely 'prisoner and prisoner-to-staff relationships', with this a core predictor for attitudes supportive of bullying.…”

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“…Some research has explored the role of attitudes in prison bullying (e.g. Connell & Farrington, 1996;Ireland, 1999;Dyson, 2005;Spain, 2005;Ireland, Power, Bramhall & Flowers, 2009 Interventions on prison bullying would also benefit from more exploration of this area. There is an absence of evaluation of bullying interventions in the prison literature (Kiriakidis, 2010) and yet the development of measures could assist evaluation.…”

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Attitudes towards prisoner-to-prisoner bullying and the association with prison environments: examining the components

Ireland

Power

2016

Jnl Aggress Conflict Peace Res

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine attitudes towards prisoner-to-prisoner bullying, further considering the association between attitudes and characteristics of the prison environment thought to promote prisoner bullying. Design/methodology/approach – Questionnaires were administered to 423 adult male prisoners and 195 correctional officers from three prisons in Canada. Participants completed the Prison Bullying Scale and the Prison Environmental Scale. Findings – Convergence in attitudes between prisoners and officers were noted although staff were more likely to consider bullies to be skilled, whereas prisoners were more likely than officers to feel that victims of bullying should be supported. Associations between attitudes supportive of bullying and environmental characteristics likely to promote prison bullying were found primarily among prisoners; the strongest predictors of such attitudes were poor relationships (e.g. prisoner to officer; prisoner-to-prisoner). Research limitations/implications – The study highlights the importance of the social aspect of the prison environment. It further provides an outline of two measures that could have utility in evaluating interventions designed to reduce prisoner-to-prisoner bullying. Practical implications – Interventions into prisoner-to-prisoner bullying should attend to the wider environment and not focus solely on individual pathology approaches. A “whole prison” approach to intervention should be adopted, with recognition that officers and prisoners are part of the community. A focus on the perceived relationships between all those in this community requires consideration, with a community centred approach recommended for intervention. A concentrated effort is needed on evaluating and publishing interventions into prisoner-to-prisoner bullying. Originality/value – The study is the first to examine attitudes in a combined sample of prisoners and officers and focuses on the role of the wider prison environment. It also utilises a sample from three prisons as opposed to focusing on a single establishment.

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Attitudes towards prisoner-to-prisoner bullying and the association with prison environments: examining the components

Ireland

Power

2016

Jnl Aggress Conflict Peace Res

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“…The results appear to indicate that victimization shares a number of similar characteristics with aggression (see Egan & Perry, 1998;Hodges, Malone, & Perry, 1997;Schwartz, Dodge, Pettit, & Bates, 1997). In fact, non-normative peer-aggression and victimization behaviour have come to be regarded with a great deal of concern because they appear to have similar developmental trajectory and stability (see Connell & Farrington, 1996;Farrington, 1993;Loeber & Hay, 1997).…”

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“…In fact, some of the latest research points to the long interaction with the police, judicial system, mental health agencies, and other social organizations (Connell & Farrington, 1996;Olweus, 1993a). The long-term outcome for bullies varies, depending on the type of intervention.…”

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Bond

1999

Brock Education Journal

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EditorialGivcn the nature of the process of education, the human groups for whom education is designed and with whom educating is, to a great degree, an intimate, social interaction, even the most superficial examination of the elements involved reveals a diversity of components which span most, if not all, aspects of human life. Some time ago it was recognized that our own education and the education of our fellow humans extends in length and breadth far outside the formal classrooms of primary, secondary, and postsecondary education. This said, it is not at all difficult to identify components of education such as life-long learning, social responsibilities, citizenship, gender based issues, and helping people develop their potential. What a contr8st these postmodern concepts of education make when compared with traditionally espoused notions of "back to basics" and "the three Rs", which, even as I write, are still perceived by many in the community to be by far the most suitable concepts by which wc may cope with the present and try to facc;; the future.This edition presents articles on education which are widely varied in nature, but nonetheless have application to the profession as manifest in its many forms. They have relevance, also, to important aspects of the ways in which we socialize and are socialized within the context of education and educating. These articles, then, are presented to encourage the examination of education through somewhat different lenses and to invite questions pertaining to where we are and where we are going. Donne la nature du processus d'education, les groupes humains pour qui l'education est destinee ct avec qui I'enseignement est eminement une action mutuelle intime et sociale, meme I 'examen Ie plus superficiel revele une diversite des elements compris qui traverse to us les aspects de la vie humaine. 11 y a quelque temps que I'on a reconnu que notre education et celie de tous les autres etres humains s'etendent bien en dehors des salles de classe des ecoles de tous les niveaux. A partir de ceia, il n' est pas difficile d'identifier les aspects d'education, c'est a dire I'apprentissage de toute la vie, les responsabilites sociaies, Ie civisme, les matieres qui s'agit de genre (sexe), et comment aider aux gens d'atteindre leur maximum. Quel contraste qu'on voit entre ces concepts d'education post-modernes et les idees generales traditionellement embrassees qui s'agit de se retourner aux essentielles et I'apprentissage de langue, de lecture, et de mathematiques. Ceux-ci sont vus par plusieurs membres de la communaute, meme au present, comme les concepts les plus appropries pour se charger du present aussi bien que du futur.Cette edition presente les articles au sujet d'education qui sont varies mais qui au meme temps s'appJiquent a to utes les formes du professorat. lls ont rapport aussi aux aspects importants des manieres par lesquelles on s'associe et est associe dans Ie contexte d'apprentissage et d'enseignement. Ces articles, alors, sont prescntes ici pour encourager I'ex...

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“…Gill, Fisher and Bowie, 2002] and between prisoners [e.g. Connell and Farrington, 1996;Ireland, 2002a;Leddy and O'Connell, 2002].…”

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Bullying among mentally-ill patients detained in a high-secure hospital: an exploratory study of the perceptions of staff and patients into how bullying is defined

Ireland

2006

Aggr. Behav.

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The present study is the first to explore patient-to-patient bullying within a secure psychiatric hospital housing mentally-ill patients. Its main aim was to provide an outline of the perceptions held by both patients and staff with regards to patient-to-patient bullying as opposed to providing an objective study of bullying. The total sample comprised 104 participants, 44 patients and 60 staff. These were sampled from wards housing male patients and wards housing female patients. All participants took part in a semi-structured interview based on that developed by Ireland and Ireland [2003] and Ireland [2005, 2004]. One quarter of participants stated they had seen a patient being bullied in the previous week, with staff perceiving a higher extent of bullying than patients. Differences between wards were minimal. It was predicted that theft-related bullying would be reported most frequently, that staff would identify a wider range of bullying behaviours than patients and that direct forms of aggression would be identified more readily as bullying than indirect forms. All predictions were supported. Problems in attempting to obtain a definition of bullying were also identified, with participants operating broader definitions than those found in the school-based literature. For example, bullying was not generally considered a repeated form of aggression, the severity of the aggression or provocative behaviour of the victim were not defining features, and it was felt bullying could be accidental. In summary, the current study highlights how patient-to-patient bullying does occur in services housing mentally-ill patients and that researching the behaviour may require the adoption of broader hospital-specific definitions of bullying. Aggr.

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Bullying among incarcerated young offenders: developing an interview schedule and some preliminary results

Cited by 94 publications

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Attitudes towards prisoner-to-prisoner bullying and the association with prison environments: examining the components

Attitudes towards prisoner-to-prisoner bullying and the association with prison environments: examining the components

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Bullying among mentally-ill patients detained in a high-secure hospital: an exploratory study of the perceptions of staff and patients into how bullying is defined

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