Tell us how you Really Feel: Validating an Inmate Social Climate Survey
| Autor: | Melissa W. Burek, John Liederbach |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Government
media_common.quotation_subject 050901 criminology 05 social sciences Applied psychology Sample (statistics) Prison Audit Perception Agency (sociology) Survey data collection 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Applied research 0509 other social sciences Psychology Law 050104 developmental & child psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Criminal Justice. 46:209-231 |
| ISSN: | 1936-1351 1066-2316 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s12103-020-09570-0 |
| Popis: | Correctional facilities have a discernible social climate, or collection of contextual properties that derive in part from the perceptions of inmates. These properties include the physical, organizational, social, and emotional characteristics of correctional institutions. Social climate directly influences the attitudes and behavior of inmates, their well-being, and prison management. The present study describes the results of an applied research project conducted in association with a government agency that audits Ohio’s prisons and youth facilities through site inspection visits and survey data. The agency’s questionnaires, as well as the procedures used to sample inmates and administer the instruments, were evaluated to determine the degree to which they accurately reflected the perceptions of inmates and the social climate of the correctional institutions. We identified several problems related to survey construction and administration. The results suggest that the surveys are at least to some degree not measuring several important dimensions of the correctional environment and the experiences of inmates as intended. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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