Inmate Misconduct and the Institutional Capacity for Control
| Autor: | Marie L. Griffin, John R. Hepburn |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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education.field_of_study
media_common.quotation_subject Population Human factors and ergonomics Poison control Prison Criminology Computer security computer.software_genre Suicide prevention Pathology and Forensic Medicine Misconduct Social order education Prison violence Psychology Law computer General Psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Criminal Justice and Behavior. 40:270-288 |
| ISSN: | 1552-3594 0093-8548 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0093854812457920 |
| Popis: | The social order of a prison arises from the combined effects of the prison’s institutional capacity for control and the effectiveness of prison management. Prior research suggests that the criminogenic characteristics of the inmate population, the security level of the prison, and the prison environment are three structural characteristics of prisons that define each prison’s institutional capacity for control, as reflected in the aggregate-level measures of inmate misconduct, and prison environment is expected to moderate the effects of inmate population characteristics on inmate misconduct. This study of 50 state prisons for men provides support for the hypothesized direct effects of institutional capacity for control on the level of violent and nonviolent inmate misconduct and for the contextual effect of prison environment. The findings are discussed in terms of the management environment created among prisons by variations in the institutional capacity for control. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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