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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"prison misconduct"”.
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A family affair: the effects of familial relations on offender recidivism
<p>Prisoner recidivism has and continues to impact families and communities. Traditional methods aimed at reducing this phenomenon have had little success in curtailing this problem. One obvious but often overlooked tool that may play a significant role in dealing with this issue is the importance …
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Psychopathology, victimization experiences, and prison adjustment in women at Fluvanna maximum-security facility
ABSTRACT 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 …
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From American Service to Disservice: An Exploration of the Impact of Military Experience among an Incarcerated Population
… arrests, current offense type, and institutional misconduct. This research uses data from the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics* 2004 Survey of Inmates in State and Federal Correctional Facilities. Multivariate analyses indicate that different elements of military participation influence criminal …
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Misconduct in prison : examining MMPI-2 personality characteristics within a correctional sample
… 2002). In the past 20 years forensic and prison populations have increased by 400 percent, reaching record high numbers, with little indication of slowing growth (Megargee, 1994). Parallel to this rapid increase, questions of institution management, inmate behavior, and conformity to …
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The Disobedient Prisoner: A Racial Comparison of the Level of Punishment Prescribed to Inmates for Rule Violations
… are disproportionately represented within the prison system led to the hypothesis that Black inmates receive harsher punishments than White inmates when they violate a rule while in prison. A cross-sectional study, "Survey of Inmates in State and Federal Correctional Facilities, 2004," which …
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Prisoner, prison and situational characteristics and their relationship with the prevalence, incidence and type of prison offending recorded by a sample of prisoners within Western Australian prisons
The importance that researchers and prison administrators have placed on ensuring that the good governance, security and safety of prisons are maintained has generated a number of studies of prison offending. Previous studies have identified several prisoner, prison and situational characteristics …