“…Moreover, does regime affect inmate attitudes about anticipated crime, too, after their release? In a word, yes, since previous research has indicated that nonviolent offenders once released were more likely to favour violent crime as an option to get what they wanted after their prison experiences than before those prison experiences, due in part to a prisonisation effect (Stevens 1994b). Reasonably, therefore, it could be argued that regime affects both inmate behaviour and recidivism; however, the longer an inmate serves in an American high-custody penitentiary probably regardless of regime, the more likely he accepts crime as an option once released (Stevens 1995b).…”