Views on COVID-19 from inside prison: Perspectives of high-security prisoners

Pyrooz, David C.; Labrecque, Ryan M.; Tostlebe, Jennifer J.; Useem, Bert

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“…In particular, “prisoners and correctional staff share an environment known to amplify, accelerate, and act as a reservoir for outbreaks of respiratory diseases” (Montoya-Barthelemy et al 2020:1). Coupled with correctional facilities’ inability to implement even the most basic public health measures necessary to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 (Burki 2020), these circumstances have left incarcerated persons especially vulnerable to COVID-19 infection, hospitalization, and mortality, with perceptions among prisoners that “it was not a matter of if, but when, the virus would ultimately reach their facility” once the outbreak began (Pyrooz et al 2020:301).…”

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Racial Resentment, Empathy, and Support for Release during COVID-19: Results from a Survey Experiment

Ivanov

Novisky

Vogel

2021

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has presented the American criminal justice system with unprecedented challenges, including protecting the safety of incarcerated men and women. Given the ill-suited structure of correctional facilities to facilitate health and safety guidelines, one solution is decarceration. Yet decarceration has faced political and public backlash. As no evidence currently exists on how the public views this emergency solution, the authors examined the correlates of support for decarceration by conducting a survey experiment in which respondents were randomly presented with information on the dangers of COVID-19 in prisons and jails. Respondents’ attitudes toward releasing various subgroups of the incarcerated population were then measured. The findings indicate that learning about the health risks of COVID-19 in correctional facilities had no discernable effect on support for decarceration for any subgroup. Racial resentment consistently predicted opposition to release for all groups, although its effect largely operated through empathetic identification with those who commit crimes.

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Racial Resentment, Empathy, and Support for Release during COVID-19: Results from a Survey Experiment

Ivanov

Novisky

Vogel

2021

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

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“…However, van Rooij and colleagues (2020) focused explicitly on compliance with legal orders (i.e., stay-at-home and social distancing), rather than CDC guidelines generally, nor did they focus on general perceptions of certainty, severity, control, and fear, as they pertain to the COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, in interviews with incarcerated persons, Pyrooz and colleagues (2020) found that these individuals were not fearful about getting the coronavirus, as they felt they had little control over whether it would happen or not. Together, this research provides evidence that perceptions of certainty, severity, control, and fear, are important elements influencing compliance with COVID-19 mitigation measures; yet, no study has considered these constructs within a unified framework.…”

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Modeling Individual Defiance of COVID-19 Pandemic Mitigation Strategies: Insights From the Expanded Model of Deterrence and Protection Motivation Theory

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Moule

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Criminal Justice and Behavior

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The governmental responses to the COVID-19 pandemic include concerns for both public health and formal social control. Government leaders asked the public to help mitigate the spread of the virus by adopting various protective behaviors. Our purpose was to evaluate and explain defiance of COVID-19 mitigation strategies, drawing from the expanded model of deterrence and protection motivation theory. A national sample of 600 American adults were surveyed about perceptions of, and behaviors during, the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic, including defiance of COVID-19 mitigation strategies. Perceived severity of the disease, certainty about dying from it, and how much control one has over getting it each predicted fear of COVID-19. Defiance of COVID-19 mitigation guidelines appear to be a combination of rational choice considerations and emotions. Government and health officials should consider how the public evaluates messages about taking protective actions to maximize compliance.

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“…In a men's prison in Oregon, USA, 71% of incarcerated individuals reported that COVID-19 prevented them from receiving programming, which included the suspension of dialectical behavioural therapy [79]. Similarly, a study of 16 carceral systems offering opioid agonist treatment (OAT) programs across the USA found that COVID-19 resulted in the downsizing of operations: of the 16 systems surveyed, 10 reduced the scale of their OAT programs, 7 changed their medication dispensation process, which included limiting the frequency of assessments, and 1 discontinued follow-up appointments upon release [80].…”

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Racial Resentment, Empathy, and Support for Release during COVID-19: Results from a Survey Experiment

Racial Resentment, Empathy, and Support for Release during COVID-19: Results from a Survey Experiment

Modeling Individual Defiance of COVID-19 Pandemic Mitigation Strategies: Insights From the Expanded Model of Deterrence and Protection Motivation Theory

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