Manipulation and suicide attempts in jails and prisons

Haycock, Joel

doi:10.1007/bf01064365

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“…The overrepresentation of White inmates and underrepresentation of Black and Hispanic inmates in prison suicide estimates was consistently reported in the literature on prison suicide (Anno, 1985;Anson, 1983;Anson & Cole, 1984;Daniel & Fleming, 2006;Danto, 1973;Haycock, 1989;He, Felthous, Holzer, Nathan, & Veasey, 2001;Kovasznay et al, 2004;Rodgers, 1995;Salive et al, 1989;Way et al, 2005;White et al, 2002). For example, the racial disparities in inmate suicide were evident in the New York Department of Corrections for the years 1993 to 2001, during which time, White inmates accounted for 37 percent of inmate suicides, but only 18 percent of the total inmate population (Way et al, 2005).…”

Section: Importation Modelmentioning

confidence: 86%

Deprivation, importation, and prison suicide: Combined effects of institutional conditions and inmate composition

Dye

2010

Journal of Criminal Justice

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Section: Importation Modelmentioning

confidence: 86%

Deprivation, importation, and prison suicide: Combined effects of institutional conditions and inmate composition

Dye

2010

Journal of Criminal Justice

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“…Defining SIB also can present a challenge to clinical and custody management mandates in that determining whether a prisoner has a purely manipulative motive for engaging in SIB is a nigh-unavoidable practice in prison settings worldwide which frequently involves staff attempting to make the simultaneous distinction of whether SIB constitutes a genuine suicide attempt (Dera, Thompson, & Hills, 2000;Haycock, 1989;Hayes, 1993) and thereby specifying interventions on that basis; in spite of their primary mandate to prevent prisoner death (Daniel, 2006;Groves, 2004). The observation that a prisoner is engaging in SIB for manipulative reasons is therefore rather common and perhaps due in part to assumptions of whether a prisoner is also considered a ''hardcore'' career criminal (Groves, 2004;Johnson, 1973).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Association of Administrative Segregation Placement and Other Risk Factors with the Self-Injury-Free Time of Male Prisoners

Lanes¹

2009

Journal of Offender Rehabilitation

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The current study examined the relationship between risk factors for prisoner self-injurious behavior (SIB) and the amount of time male prisoners function without engaging in SIB (SIB-free time), and obtained estimates of SIB-free time for selected SIB prisoner subgroups dependent on their housing status. Conditional Cox regression analysis revealed that a risk model consisting of developmental, mental health=health, legal=offense, and institutional functioning factors accounted for 56% of the difference in risk between SIB (n ¼ 132) and non-SIB male prisoners (n ¼ 132) who were matched according to security level and conviction prefix, estimating a SIB risk probability of .50 at !36 months of SIB-free time. Survival analyses revealed that administrative segregation placement drastically reduced SIB-free periods for certain SIB prisoner subgroups. Some potential practice implications for correctional mental health and security=classification professionals and directions for future research are discussed.

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“…The forensic literature on DSH and suicide attempts contains frank discussion of manipulative or, as we would prefer to term it, strategic intent (e.g., Haycock 1989;Groves 2004). As Haycock (1989: 85) puts it:…”

Section: Forensic Populationsmentioning

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Gestures of Despair and Hope: A View on Deliberate Self-harm From Economics and Evolutionary Biology

2008

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A long-standing theoretical tradition in clinical psychology and psychiatry sees deliberate self-harm (DSH), such as wristcutting, as "functional"-a means to avoid painful emotions, for example, or to elicit attention from others. There is substantial evidence that DSH serves these functions. Yet the specific links between self-harm and such functions remain obscure. Why don't self-harmers use less destructive behaviors to blunt painful emotions or elicit attention? Economists and biologists have used game theory to show that, under certain circumstances, self-harmful behaviors by economic agents and animals serve important strategic goals. In particular, "costly signals" can credibly reveal a "private state" in situations where verbal claims and other "cheap" signals might be disbelieved. Here, DSH is scrutinized using signaling theory, and a variant, the theory of bargaining with private information. The social contexts and associated features of DSH suggest that it might be a costly, and therefore credible, signal of need that compels social partners to respond.

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Manipulation and suicide attempts in jails and prisons

Cited by 63 publications

References 4 publications

Deprivation, importation, and prison suicide: Combined effects of institutional conditions and inmate composition

Deprivation, importation, and prison suicide: Combined effects of institutional conditions and inmate composition

The Association of Administrative Segregation Placement and Other Risk Factors with the Self-Injury-Free Time of Male Prisoners

Gestures of Despair and Hope: A View on Deliberate Self-harm From Economics and Evolutionary Biology

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