Prediction of adjustment to prison in a federal correctional population

White, Robert B.

doi:10.1002/1097-4679(198010)36:4<1031::aid-jclp2270360438>3.0.co;2-t

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“…Attempts to relate institutional misconduct and articulable personality dimensions have yielded mixed results. Several researchers have reported that various scales of the MMPI do not discriminate between inmates with a propensity for disciplinary involvement and other prisoners (Jaman et al, 1966(Jaman et al, , 1972Watman, 1966;White, 1980). However, other researchers have found that individual clinical scale scores (Myers and Levy, 1978) or profiles constructed on the basis of prisoner samples can reliably differentiate adjusted and maladjusted inmates (Panton, 1958(Panton, ,1979Megargee and Bohn, 1979;Edinger, 1979).…”

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Correlates of Institutional Misconduct Among State Prisoners

1983

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A s with participation in illegitimate activities in the larger society, involvement in rule infractions within prisons is not normally distributed among prisoners. Rather, a small segment of the inmate population is disproportionately represented in official records of disciplinary activity. I n this research, factors associated with differential levels of involvement in prison disciplinary infractions were examined.The findings indicate that the inmate's age at commitment, history of drug use, current offense (particularly homicide/ nonhomicide categories), and the type of sentence that the inmate served were significantly related to high-rate infraction status. For one subgroup of the inmate population, race was also significantly related to infraction-rate status. However, these variables are not sufficiently predictive of institutional misconduct tojustify their use as classification factors. The implications of the findings for the study of social control mechanisms in prisons are discussed.The prisoner's conduct record within the institution has traditionally been viewed as an indicator of adjustment or maladjustment to the prison situation (Wolf, Frienek, and Schaffer, 1966). Moreover, the disciplinary infraction record has been identified by some observers as a predictor of postrelease recidivism risk.Both of these premises have been questioned in recent research (see O'Leary and Glaser, 1972;Lipton et al., 1975; Gottfredson and Adams, AUTHORS NOTE: Z would like to thank Michael Gottfredson, John L a d , and an anonymous reviewer for their comments on earlier drafts of this article.

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Correlates of Institutional Misconduct Among State Prisoners

1983

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“…Genders and Player's (1989) approach was built mainly on U.S. and U.K. studies, which varied in size and approach and whose findings were not always consistent. Some (Boyd, 1976;Petersilia, 1983;White, 1980) found no significant difference between the rate of disciplinary reporting for Black and White prisoners. Others showed higher rates for Black compared to White prisoners (Flanagan, 1983;Ramirez, 1983), while Petersilia, Honig, and Hubay (1980) found a higher rate for White compared to Black prisoners.…”

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Using Action Research to Improve Race Relations in Prisons

Ellis¹

2019

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice

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Tackling racism in prisons has a relatively long policy, practice, and research history in England and Wales. However, clear evidence of success in reducing racism in prisons has been, and still is, difficult to find. This article is based on a unique study that was carried out either side of the new millennium (late 1999 to mid-2001), but no equivalent exercise has been repeated since. Due to a unique set of circumstances at the time the study was carried out, it became possible to employ an action research approach that required policymakers, practitioners, volunteers, and researchers to agree on: an emergent research design; implementation; intervention; and measurement. There are many forms of action research, but this study could best be defined as a “utilization-focused evaluation, which is particularly applicable to the criminal justice environment. This approach also included elements of participatory action research.” The emphasis here is to show how the action research approach can be both more systematic and more flexible than traditional social science approaches. This applies to both epistemological and research methods considerations, because, by combining theory and action, action research can provide a more viable way of ensuring that policy works in practice, and is sensitive to unique institutional exigencies. Throughout, discussion is contextualised using policy, research and methodology texts from the period when the research was commissioned, but given an overall methodological context by referencing more recent methodology text books. The article first outlines the context in which the action research study was commissioned, before providing a summary of the international research findings on race relations in prisons, from which key concepts for the project were initially operationalized. The chapter then explains how the specific participatory action research approach was selected as the most appropriate design, the extent to which the approach was successful, and why. The article ends with a discussion of the implications of findings and conclusions from this study for current policy and methodological approaches.

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