The Effect of Facility Security Classification on Serious Rules Violation Reports in California Prisons: A Regression Discontinuity Design

Tahamont, Sarah

doi:10.1007/s10940-019-09405-0

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“…With the primary concern of correctional facilities being the the safety and security of incarcerated individuals and staff (Pizarro & Narag, 2008), incarcerated individuals are expected to obey the rules of the institution. Prior scholarship has linked several factors to why individuals obey, or disobey, institutional rules (Kruttschnitt & Gartner, 2005;Merbitz et al, 1995;Steiner & Wooldredge, 2009;Tahamont, 2019;Tewksbury et al, 2014). Much of this literature has used the correctional perspective of importation and deprivation models to explain misconduct (see Hochstetler & Delisi, 2005;Jiang & Fisher-Giorlando, 2002;Leigey, 2019;Steiner et al, 2014;Walters & Crawford, 2013).…”

Section: Institutional Rule Breakingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Futurelessness and Commitment to Institutional Rules Among People in Jail

Abderhalden

Marques

Baker

2022

Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol

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The current study builds on prior work examining the association between futurelessness and commitment institutional rules among correctional populations. Using cross-sectional data from a sample of 413 people incarcerated in United States jails from 2018 to 2019, this study employs Ordinary Least Squares regression to examine the association between futurelessness and commitment to institutional rules controlling for various importation and deprivation factors previously linked with institutional misconduct. Results provide support for the importance of futurelessness for commitment to institutional rules, suggesting that this finding is consistent across correctional environments. In addition, findings suggest that an index measure of futurelessness is a stronger construct for testing futurelessness than single-item measures used in prior studies. Consistent with prior literature on futurelessness, our findings suggest that among people incarcerated in jail futurelessness is linked to a weaker commitment to institutional rules.

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Section: Institutional Rule Breakingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Futurelessness and Commitment to Institutional Rules Among People in Jail

Abderhalden

Marques

Baker

2022

Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol

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“…Regression discontinuity (RD) is one of the most popular approaches for treatment effect analysis with observational data: see Imbens and Lemieux (2008), Lee and Lemieux (2010), Lee (2016), Choi and Lee (2017, 2021), Cattaneo et al (2019), and references therein. In addition to these RD reviews on economics, statistics and political science, there are also many RD studies in behavioural and educational sciences, as can be seen in Bloom (2012), Wong et al (2013), Tahamont (2019), Sales and Hansen (2020) and Bloom et al (2020), among many others.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Score manipulation, density continuity and intent‐to‐treat effect for regression discontinuity

Choi

Lee

2021

Pacific Economic Review

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Regression discontinuity (RD) is widely used in many disciplines of science to find treatment effect when the treatment is determined by an underlying running variable (‘score') crossing a cutoff or not. The main attraction of RD is local randomization around , which is, however, often ruined by manipulation on . To detect manipulation, the continuity of score density function at is routinely tested in practice. In this paper, we examine how informative is for RD, and show the following. First, for incumbency effect in election to which RD has been heavily applied, may have no information content. Second, for RD in general, the continuity is neither necessary nor sufficient for RD validity. Third, if the treatment cannot be implemented without manipulation of , then the manipulation had better be considered as part of the treatment effect, much as in ‘intent‐to‐treat effect’ for clinical trials. These findings call for relying less on continuity tests and, instead, thinking more about how subjects react to the treatment to modify their , how to design the treatment to lessen manipulation, and what to take as the desired treatment effect.

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“…Many scholars have defined rule infractions as the institutional rule-breaking behavior of an inmate (Kruttschnitt & Gartner, 2005;Merbitz, Jain, Good, & Jain, 1995;Steiner & Wooldredge, 2009, Tewksbury, Connor & Denney, 2014Tahamont, 2019;). For each rule infraction, inmates are typically charged with a disciplinary ticket (Merbitz et al, 1995).…”

Section: Defining Rule Infractionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Prison rule-breaking behavior can include nonviolent or minor rule infractions (e.g., failing to follow sanitary regulations) and serious or major ones (e.g., possessing a weapon) (Flanagan, 1983;Merbitz et al, 1995;Poole & Regoli, 1979;Stephen, 1990;Tewksbury, Connor & Denney, 2014;Tahamont, 2019). According to Tahamont (2019), "examples of serious rules violation reports include any activity that would qualify as a crime outside the prison; as well as, hideout, preparation to escape, or possession of escape paraphernalia; possession of contraband or controlled substances; bartering; manufacture of alcohol; and refusing to work or participate in programs" (p.783). Some inmates may commit a few severe rule violations, while others may commit several minor infractions.…”

Section: Defining Rule Infractionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Support, Mental Health Problems, And Rule Infractions: A Study Of Female Inmates

Shammi¹

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The Effect of Facility Security Classification on Serious Rules Violation Reports in California Prisons: A Regression Discontinuity Design

Cited by 8 publications

References 33 publications

Futurelessness and Commitment to Institutional Rules Among People in Jail

Futurelessness and Commitment to Institutional Rules Among People in Jail

Score manipulation, density continuity and intent‐to‐treat effect for regression discontinuity

Social Support, Mental Health Problems, And Rule Infractions: A Study Of Female Inmates

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