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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Inmate Behavior"”.
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Women in prison: Do visits from children influence inmate behavior?
… child visitation and its relationship to female behavior inside the priSon If women who receive visits adjust more easily to prison life, prison administrators would be wise to note these benefits; Data was collected at a private female prison in North Las Vegas, Nevada. Information on visitation …
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Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick: The Effects of Women Correctional Officers on Prison VIolence
… suggests that staff culture might influence inmate behavior. Correctional officers have the most interaction with inmates, and a crucial aspect of achieving staff and institutional legitimacy involves treating inmates in a procedurally just fashion. Literature suggests that procedural justice …
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Place Management in a Correctional Setting
… whether or not the number of incidents of inmate misconduct and disorder can be reduced thereby. Using a mixed-method design, this study measured the impact place management interventions implemented in a county jail had on a number of outcome measures, including the number of written, …
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Misconduct in prison : examining MMPI-2 personality characteristics within a correctional sample
… increase, questions of institution management, inmate behavior, and conformity to prison rules, as well as cost effectiveness become relevant. According to prison administrators, the management issue of greatest priority is maintaining the safety of the institution (Cullen, Latessa, Burton, & …
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Examining Correctional Leadership Styles That Encourage Cooperative Compliance From Federal Offenders
… Prisons has experienced tremendous growth in its inmate population. Concluding 1930 with 14 federal prisons, the Bureau of Prisons now maintains 122 federal prisons, and is accountable for over 180,000 federal offenders within federal prisons walls and within contracted correctional centers. The …