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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Male inmates"”.
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The Perspectives of Male Inmates Regarding Their K-12 Educational Experiences
… disengagement. By exploring the perspectives of male inmates aged 18-30 regarding their educational experiences, this study's data illuminated how school personnel and the schooling process may theoretically contribute to negative outcomes such as incarceration. The focus of the study was to …
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An Exploration of the Personal, Social, Educational, and Employment Characteristics of Male Inmates Entering the Illinois Penal System
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Effects of Emotional Intelligence Training on Incarcerated Adult Males Involved in Pre-Release Programming
… emotional intelligence (EI) training for adult male inmates. Acts of crime and violence cause psychological repercussions to crime victims and financial burdens on our society. Historically, those involved in the criminal justice system have strived to gather knowledge about criminal behavior in …
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Path analytic investigation of stress-symptom relationships: Physical and psychological symptom models
… and psychological symptoms. Seventy-five adult male inmates of a county correctional facility were studied using a prospective research design to explore the relationships among variables constituting a stress process and between stress variables and symptoms of physical and psychological …
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Psychopathology, victimization experiences, and prison adjustment in women at Fluvanna maximum-security facility
… The examination of prison adjustment among inmates in the United States has a long tradition of quantitative research focused mostly on male inmates examining factors necessary for understanding how they adjust to the prison. Such a tradition contributed to a significant knowledge gap in the …
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A penological approach to the social construct of sexuality
… behind bars. Using data collected from 142 male inmates in a Southern maximumsecurity correctional facility, the purpose of the present study was to examine whether engaging in sexual behavior affects a change in the sexual orientation of male prison inmates, using a social constructionist …
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Using the Survey of Inmates of State and Federal Correctional Facilities to Compare Female and Male Inmate Characteristics.
… study was to examine the differences between female and male prison inmates using the Survey of Inmates of State and Federal Correctional Facilities, 1997. Variables examined included current offense, criminal history, drug use history, victimization history, program participation in the …
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Childhood animal cruelty motives and their relationship to recurrent adult interpersonal crimes
… violence toward humans. Based on a sample of 257 male inmates, the present study examines the relationship between four retrospectively identified motives for childhood animal cruelty and later adult interpersonal violence. Almost half of the inmates reported engaging in childhood animal cruelty …
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Can childhood animal cruelty be learned?: examining age of onset and recurrency
… learned behavior. Using data collected from 257 male inmates at a Southern state medium-security prison, the current study seeks to replicate the Hensley, Tallichet and Dutkiewicz (2012) study. It examines the potential for the onset and recurrence of childhood animal cruelty to become a learned …
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Reading Attitudes, Achievement and Motivation of Adult Male Prison Inmates
… reading attitudes and achievement of adult male inmates and what motivates them to want to learn to read. Eighty (80) inmates enrolled in the Pre-GED classes at a medium security prison in western New York were given a reading attitude inventory designed by the researcher based on the Estes …
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Perceived Access to Healthcare and Support Services in Icelandic Prisons and Service Utilization Among Male Residents at Vernd
… is associated with service utilization among male residents at Vernd, a halfway house in Iceland. The sample consisted of 225 Icelandic-speaking former male inmates who completed a self-report questionnaire at the end of their stay at Vernd. A quantitative cross-sectional design was used, and …
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Examining the Effects of Religiosity and Religious Environments On Inmate Misconduct
… and inmate misconduct. Studies indicate that inmates may select into religion, and that substantial differences between religious and non-religious inmates may confound the relationship between religiosity and misconduct. On the other hand, studies in the general population have discovered …
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The social construction of female criminality : women, mental health, and the criminal justice system
… that examined the differential treatment of female and male inmates and the circumstances of their incarceration. Many of these studies have repeatedly shown that where female inmates are concerned, there is a much stronger psychiatric or emotional label attached to the acts of deviance …
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An Investigation of the Psychosocial Impact of Human-Animal Interaction on a Forensic Population
… human-animal interaction (HAI) program on prison inmates. The study assessed the impact of the HAI program using both between-subject and within-subject methods and analyses. A total of 54 male inmates participated in the research by completing self-report measures, keeping journals, and allowing …
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Misconduct in prison : examining MMPI-2 personality characteristics within a correctional sample
… the differences in rates and the seriousness of inmates’ misconduct in relation to their personality characteristics and psychopathology, as measured by the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory – 2 (MMPI-2). Data were obtained from archival records at a low-security federal institution in …
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Crime in nineteenth-century Ireland: Grangegorman female penitentiary and Richmond male penitentiary, with reference to juveniles and women, 1836-60
… Ireland, with particular focus on female inmates and juveniles. Grangegorman female penitentiary and Richmond male penitentiary are the case studies utilised to carry out this research. Grangegorman penitentiary was the first ever exclusively female prison in the British Isles. This …
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On within-defense variability and defenses in male federal offenders
… the validity of the ADS with a sample of 104 male undergraduates. The ADS was hypothesized to account for significant unique variance on dependent measures (the PAI, ECR, and final grade in introductory psychology) beyond that accounted for by the Defense-Q. Regression analyses showed that a …
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Observation-induced reactance in a prison
Male inmates incarcerated in a Federal Correctional Institution viewed one of two videotaped scenes which were presented as recordings of a classification team meeting held in another institution. The two videotapes were actually simulations identical in content except with respect to the presence …