Behavior and Adaptation in Long-Term Prison Inmates: Descriptive Longitudinal Results

Individual and group IQ predict inmate violence

“…The agency provided detailed behavioral histories along with individual specific data on all male inmates sentenced to state prisons between August 2004 and June 2006. Research indicates that misconduct is most likely to occur within the first three years of incarceration (Adams, 1992;Bottoms, 1999;Flanagan, 1980;Griffin & Hepburn, 2006;Zamble, 1992). Therefore, inmates who served a prison sentence of less than three years were removed from the sample.…”

The Effect of Drug Treatment on Inmate Misconduct in Federal Prisons

“…Prior research has demonstrated that the frequency of misconduct is highest early in the sentence, typically reaching its peak six to nine months into the sentence, then falling steadily with the passage of time (Maguire, 1992;Toch, Adams, & Grant, 1989;Wright, 1991;Zamble, 1992). Inmate misconduct rates, particularly for individuals with short sentences, fit an inverted U-shaped curve (Flanagan, 1980).…”

Explaining Away: A Model of Affective Adaptation

“…Zamble, 1992), noise (e.g., Cohen & Weinstein, 1981), unemployment (Lucas, Clark, Georgellis, & Diener, 2004), divorce (Lucas, 2005), and, on the positive side, marriage (e.g., Lucas, Clark, Georgellis, & Diener, 2003), increases in income (Diener & Biswas-Diener, 2002), and winning lotteries (e.g., Brickman, Coates, & Janoff-Bulman, 1978). Reviewers of these literatures have observed that people appear to adapt more easily in some domains than they do in others; for example, Frederick and Loewenstein (1999) noted that people adapt more easily to incarceration than to unpleasant noises, and Lucas et al (2004) found that losing one's job is particularly difficult to adapt to and has a long-term impact on life satisfaction.…”