Dehumanizing Prisoners: Remaining Sentence Duration Predicts the Ascription of Mind to Prisoners

Deska, Jason C.; Almaraz, Steven M.; Hugenberg, Kurt

doi:10.1177/0146167220911496

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“…This is especially true when these individuals have committed violent or sex crimes (Bastian, Denson, & Haslam, 2013;Viki, Fullerton, Raggett, Tait, & Wiltshire, 2012). Deska et al (2020) found that the perception of prisoners as human increases as they get closer to their release date, implying that prisoners are devoid of human features while incarcerated and that the criminal justice system has done its job of rehabilitating offenders.…”

Section: Salient Target Populations and The Subcategorization Of Devimentioning

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“…Drawing primarily on the public policy literature, this essay presents the concept of salient target populations (Bosak, Asbrock, & Meyer, 2018;Ingram, Schneider, & DeLeon, 2007;Schneider & Ingram, 1993, 1997. It is argued herein that early release policies depend on the salience of the inmate population (Deska, Almaraz, & Hugenberg, 2020;Vasiljevic & Viki, 2014). According to Ingram et al (2007), "policies often subdivide target populations, creaming off the most positively constructed of dependent and deviant groups and affording them better treatment" (p. 104).…”

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Salient target populations and the subcategorization of deviants in the release of inmates during the COVID-19 pandemic

Lofaro

McCue

2020

Administrative Theory & Praxis

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Prisons and jails throughout the United States have reduced their populations to prevent the spread of COVID-19. It is posited herein that as a result of the pandemic, criminals have been subcategorized and given preferential treatment based on their degree of deviance. Applying the salient target populations concept, it is argued that public officials have been able to "cherry pick" criminals with a more positive construction-e.g., the nonviolent, the elderly, or those otherwise at risk of death from the virus-while further perpetuating a negative view of those deemed too deviant for benefits-e.g., those accused of violent or sex crimes. This practice has perpetuated social injustices in the criminal justice system by defining individuals by their crimes and withholding protections from the virus as a result. The Los Angeles County jail system is used as an illustrative case study throughout. Implications and avenues for future research are explored.

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Section: Salient Target Populations and The Subcategorization Of Devimentioning

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Salient target populations and the subcategorization of deviants in the release of inmates during the COVID-19 pandemic

Lofaro

McCue

2020

Administrative Theory & Praxis

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“…Accordingly, longer and harsher prison sentences can increase the possibility of a personality change of a prisoner. [2,3] To an inmate, contact with the outside world is of great importance. Being in a closed institution is very inconvenient and leads to people having psychological difficulties and penitentiary stress.…”

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The Life in Jail: Lived Experiences of Persons Deprived of Liberty

Gales¹,

Omega²,

Cano³

et al. 2023

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This study investigated the lived experiences among Persons Deprived of Liberty (PDL) using phenomenological approach of qualitative research. Five PDL from Surigao City, Philippines were chosen as informants of the study based from the years of imprisonment. The data were gathered through in-depth interviews focusing on the informants’ personal experiences inside and outside the jail. Based on the analysis of data, 23 concepts were formulated from significant meaning units, and the concepts were categorized into five propositions. From these categories, 4 themes emerged: Connections, Self-reflection, Difficulties and Challenges, and Adapting for survival. The findings of this study provide an important foundation from which to increase public awareness and to understand the experiences among PDL who went through change but faced difficulties and challenges inside and outside the jail. It involved the negative and positive experiences; negative because they experienced longing for their family, loneliness, and hardships especially as they encounter discrimination by the people outside, and positive because they experienced change inside the jail and learned from their mistakes in the past. Such a phenomenon at some point leads ex-convicts to self-reflect and change their lives into good examples. These experiences of PDL may influence and inspire the youth to avoid any crimes and help them realize that life inside the prison is not easy as they think. From these experiences, people can have an understanding and be aware of what would life be like inside the jail and may develop a more productive consciousness of one’s life.

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“…Within the penal system, dehumanization literature has called for more humanistic treatment by officers (Guenther, 2012;Kelso, 2014). Empirically, dehumanization's impact extends beyond confinement into courtrooms-participants determined incarcerated people with dehumanizing descriptions (compared to control incarcerated people) should receive harsher punishments and judged them to have reduced mental sophistication (Deska et al, 2018(Deska et al, , 2020. Within carceral institutions, officer's experiences of organizational dehumanization (i.e., feeling less than human as a staff member) have been cross-sectionally associated with perpetuating depersonalization and dehumanization on to incarcerated persons (Stinglhamber et al, 2022).…”

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Development and validation of a self‐report measure of perceived dehumanization from officers

Robison,

Baker,

Abderhalden

et al. 2024

J Clin Psychol

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PurposeEmerging evidence indicates that incarcerated populations' perceptions of dehumanization by officers are prevalent, yet measures of it are few, and to our knowledge, no self‐report measure of dehumanization from officers exists. To fill this gap, we have developed the Perceived Dehumanization from Officers Scale (PDOS), which is designed as a brief measure to assess perception of officer treatment as dehumanizing.MethodsIn this article, we provide preliminary evidence from two studies examining the reliability and validity of the PDOS. In study 1, a jail sample (n = 411), we analyzed the exploratory factor structure, internal consistency, and discriminant validity (in relation to procedural justice [PJ]) of the PDOS. Additionally, using a cross‐sectional ordinary least squares (OLS) regression analysis, we related independent variables with the PDOS, the dependent variable. In Study 2, a prison sample (n = 2993), we confirmed the findings from study 1.ResultsThe PDOS appears to be a psychometrically sound measure of perceived dehumanization from officers with strong association between perceptions of PJ and perceived dehumanization from officers.ConclusionsThe PDOS provides opportunity for future research, intervention through rehumanization efforts, and signals the important officer treatment. Importantly We close by discussing implications of these studies, limitations, and future research directions to further develop and test the PDOS.

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Dehumanizing Prisoners: Remaining Sentence Duration Predicts the Ascription of Mind to Prisoners

Cited by 10 publications

References 41 publications

Salient target populations and the subcategorization of deviants in the release of inmates during the COVID-19 pandemic

Salient target populations and the subcategorization of deviants in the release of inmates during the COVID-19 pandemic

The Life in Jail: Lived Experiences of Persons Deprived of Liberty

Development and validation of a self‐report measure of perceived dehumanization from officers

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