Bullying behaviors among male and female prisoners: A study of adult and young offenders

Ireland, Jane L.

doi:10.1002/(sici)1098-2337(1999)25:3<161::aid-ab1>3.0.co;2-#

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“…Subsidiary aims include examining the nature and extent of bullying behaviour and an attempt to replicate Ireland's [2002b] findings with regard to Bjo¨rkqvist et al's [1992] developmental model of aggression. Offenders were required to complete a self-report behavioural checklist (DIPC) [Ireland, 1999] that measures behaviours indicative of direct and indirect bullying, reactions to victimization and prison-based behavioural characteristics. In accordance with the findings of Ireland [2000Ireland [ , 2001, it is predicted that prison-based behaviours will be more predictive of membership to the four bully groups than personal, descriptive characteristics.…”

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“…These measures avoid the problems in defining bullying by presenting offenders with behaviours such as ''I have hit or kicked another offender'', and limiting them to describing only what has occurred in the previous week. The measure most widely used is the Direct and Indirect Prisoner Behaviour Checklist (DIPC) [Ireland, 1999].…”

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“…Of that which has been conducted, the majority has focused on adult offenders and on describing four main groups: ''pure bullies'', those who solely report behaviours indicative of bullying others; ''pure victims'', those who solely report behaviours indicative of being bullied; ''bully/ victims'' those who report behaviours indicative of ''being bullied'' and of ''bullying others'' and the not-involved group, those who report no behaviours. Ireland [1999], in a study comparing adults and young offenders, addressed whether basic personal descriptives such as age, offence type, ethnic origin, length of sentence and total length of time spent in prison throughout their lifetime predicted membership to one of these four groups. No significant predictors emerged for the pure bully group.…”

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Behaviours indicative of bullying among young and juvenile male offenders: a study of perpetrator and victim characteristics

Ireland

Monaghan

2006

Aggressive Behavior

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The actual characteristics of young offenders involved in behaviours indicative of ''bullying others'' or of ''being bullied'' have received only limited research attention. No research to date has focused on prison-based behavioural characteristics. The present study aimed to explore these characteristics in a sample of young and juvenile male offenders. Subsidiary aims included examining the nature and extent of behaviours indicative of bullying, and the extent to which a developmental model of aggression can be applied to a prison sample. One hundred and thirty-three offenders (102 young and 31 juvenile) completed a behavioural measure of behaviours indicative of bullying (Direct and Indirect Prisoner Behaviour Checklist). Juvenile offenders were more likely to report ''being bullied'' physically than young offenders and were less likely to report ''bullying others'' overall, directly and psychologically/verbally. Young offenders were more likely to be classified as ''bully/victims'' than juveniles. Prison-based behavioural characteristics were more predictive of membership to the perpetrator and/or victim groups than personal descriptive characteristics such as age, sentence length, offence type, ethnic origin and total amount of time spent in prison. Bully/victims were predicted by increased negative and drug-related behaviour and pure victims by decreased positive behaviour. There were no significant predictors for pure bullies. Bully/victims were found to react more aggressively to their victimization than pure victims. The present findings suggest that there are reliable predictors of involvement as a perpetrator and/or victim among young and juvenile samples. The findings are compared to previous research and discussed with regard to the environment in which bullying behaviour is being assessed.

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2006

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“…They also suggested that bullying might be a developmental sequence leading to delinquency. Bullying also frequently occurs in prisons (Ireland, 1999a) and those who have had more extensive criminal careers and have spent more time imprisoned were most likely to engage in bullying while incarcerated (Power, Dyson, & Wozniak, 1997). In another study of bullying in prisons, those classed as bullies showed higher scores than non-bullies on both direct and indirect verbal and physical aggression, (Archer, Ireland, & Power, 2007).…”

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Pro-bullying attitudes among incarcerated juvenile delinquents: Antisocial behavior, psychopathic tendencies and violent crime

Wiklund

Ruchkin

Koposov

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International Journal of Law and Psychiatry

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The objective was to evaluate a new scale aimed at assessing antisocial attitudes, the Probullying Attitude Scale (PAS), on a group of 259 voluntarily-recruited male juvenile delinquents from a juvenile correctional institution in Arkhangelsk, North-western Russia.Exploratory factor analysis gave a two-factor solution: Factor 1 denoted Callous/Dominance and Factor 2 denoted Manipulativeness/Impulsiveness. Subjects with complete data on PAS and Childhood Psychopathy Scale (CPS) (n= 171) were divided into extreme groups (first and fourth quartile) according to their total scores on PAS and the two factor scores, respectively.The extreme groups of total PAS and PAS Factor 1 differed in CPS ratings and in violent behavior as assessed by the Antisocial Behavior Checklist (ABC). They also differed in the personality dimension Harm Avoidance as measured by use of the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI), and in delinquent and aggressive behavior as assessed by the Youth Self Report (YSR). The extreme groups of PAS Factor 2, in turn, differed in aggressive behavior as assessed by the YSR, and in the TCI scale Self-Directedness. When PAS was used as a continuous variable, total PAS and PAS Factor 1 (Callous/Dominance) were significantly positively related to registered violent crime. In conclusion, the possible usefulness of PAS in identifying high-risk individuals for bullying tendencies among incarcerated delinquents is discussed.

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“…The authors argued that adolescents' views of a just world may motivate them to avoid any involvement in anti-social behaviour or difficulties. Ireland (1999) has reported that prisoners who had engaged in bullying would often describe attitudes rejecting victims and attributing blame to the victim for the bullying that had occurred, while similar research has been found with bullying in children (Eslea & Smith, 2000;Menesini, Codecasa, Benelli, & Cowie 2003). The research on young people and bullying also suggests that students tend to attribute higher levels of blame to the victims in the case of direct bullying (Gini, et al, 2008), rather than in situations of indirect bullying.…”

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Gamers’ Attitudes towards Victims of Crime

Griffiths

McLean

2013

International Journal of Cyber Behavior, Psychology and Learning

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Research on video game playing has focused mainly on the effects of such games in relation to aggression and attitudes towards perpetrators and towards crime. The present research was designed to investigate gamers' attitudes towards victims of crimes and incidents that were designed to mirror those portrayed in violent video games. Vignettes were used during interviews to explore 50 participants' attitudes towards different types of victims. The results indicate that long-term playing of violent video games appears to be associated with more negative attitudes towards victims of crime. This is the first study to directly explore attitudes towards victims of crime, in relation to violent video game exposure. Compared to nonviolent video game players, the violent video game players in the study reported less positive attitudes towards the victims in the study and attributed more blame to the victims. The implications of this finding in the context of previous research on violent video games, and on attitudes are explored. Directions for future research in the area are also highlighted.

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Bullying behaviors among male and female prisoners: A study of adult and young offenders

Cited by 96 publications

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Behaviours indicative of bullying among young and juvenile male offenders: a study of perpetrator and victim characteristics

Behaviours indicative of bullying among young and juvenile male offenders: a study of perpetrator and victim characteristics

Pro-bullying attitudes among incarcerated juvenile delinquents: Antisocial behavior, psychopathic tendencies and violent crime

Gamers’ Attitudes towards Victims of Crime

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