Procedural justice and prisoners' mental health problems: A longitudinal study

Beijersbergen, Karin A.; Dirkzwager, Anja; Eichelsheim, Veroni I.; Laan, P.H. van der; Nieuwbeerta, Paul

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“…Available research suggests prison climates perceived to be of higher quality can be associated with better outcomes than lower quality climates. Beijersbergen et al (2014) found procedurally just (fair and respectful) treatment positively predicted prisoner psychological wellbeing. Gadon et al (2006) linked supportive prison management with reduced numbers of physical assaults and lower rates of inmate homicide.…”

Section: Prison Climate Qualitymentioning

confidence: 86%

Assessing the Prison Experience for Australian First Peoples: A Prospective Research Approach

Rynne

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2015

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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Australian First Peoples hyperincarceration is concomitant with the trauma of historical and contemporary colonisation in perpetuating social dysfunction. Ongoing colonisation has been sustained by research that does not respect First Peoples epistemology, axiology, and ontology. Given this, the impact of prison quality and the potential association with First Peoples imprisonment and recidivism has been inadequately researched. Therefore there is a need to examine prison quality as experienced by Australian First Peoples. The purpose of this paper is to conceptualise a decolonising prison quality research method that is respectful of and culturally sensitive to Australian First Peoples. The proposed method interfaces First Peoples yarning with Appreciative Inquiry. Underpinning the proposed method is that all researchers, First Peoples or non-Indigenous, are attuned to cultural awareness and sensitive to the engagement process. When yarning is interfaced with Appreciative Inquiry and the latter is modified in consultation with First Peoples input, the proposed research method empowers research participants, potentially contributing to de-colonisation.

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Section: Prison Climate Qualitymentioning

confidence: 86%

Assessing the Prison Experience for Australian First Peoples: A Prospective Research Approach

Rynne

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2015

Int J for Crime, Justice & Social Democracy

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“…El afrontamiento de tipo evitativo, que fue el identificado en los condenados, tiende a considerarse como una forma desadaptativa o improductiva, al menos fuera del medio penitenciario (Arce et al, 2014). Aunque en algunos trabajos se sugiere que en el contexto de prisión las estrategias evitativas podrían ser efectivas (Beijersbergen et al, 2014;Van Harreveld et al, 2007), recurrir en menor medida a la estrategia de análisis lógico no parece reportar ningún aspecto positivo. Se trata de una estrategia útil dentro y fuera del medio penitenciario.…”

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“…Por ejemplo, si bien fuera del recinto carcelario se considera que las estrategias centradas en el problema resultan más adaptativas, algunos resultados evidencian que, en el contexto penitenciario y ante determinadas demandas ambientales, las estrategias de tipo pasivo-evitativo se erigen como efectivas y con impacto positivo sobre la salud mental (Van Harreveld, Van der Pligt, Claassen y Van Dijk, 2007). Una posible causa de este resultado parece radicar en que dentro del contexto de prisión se restringen determinadas conductas, lo que aconseja adaptar las estrategias de afrontamiento a la situación específica (Beijersbergen, Dirkzwager, Eichelsheim, Van der Laan y Nieuwbeerta, 2014).…”

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Ajuste psicológico y habilidades para la resolución de problemas en condenados por homicidio o tentativa de homicidio

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ResumenCon el objetivo de conocer el ajuste psicológico (sintomatología y diagnóstico clínico) y las destrezas para la resolución de problemas (afrontamiento) en una población de homicidas, se ha llevado a cabo un estudio en el que se contrastaron ambos factores entre una muestra de condenados por homicidio o tentativa de homicidio, con la población normativa. Participaron en el estudio 27 hombres internos en el Centro Penitenciario de Oporto (Portugal), con una edad promedio de 38.63 años. Para la medida del ajuste psicológico se acudió al SCL-90-R, mientras que el afrontamiento fue evaluado mediante el CRI-A. Los resultados revelaron que los reclusos mostraban una probabilidad superior de ser clasificados como casos clínicos en las dimensiones clínicas del SCL-90-R, a excepción de Hostilidad, así como puntuaciones significativamente más elevadas en las dimensiones clí-nicas a excepción de Hostilidad y Ansiedad Fóbica, y en los tres índices globales (i.e., GSI, PST, PSDI). Además, la muestra de condenados se caracterizaba por acudir a estrategias de afrontamiento evitativas, que son recono-

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“…Cross-sectional and experimental studies have demonstrated that individuals experiencing unfair relative to fair procedures (e.g., not being allowed to voice their opinions in group decision) report lower levels of selfesteem (Koper et al 1993;De Cremer et al 2005). Additionally, procedural fairness influences self-reported well-being (Schmitt & Dörfel 1999) and mental health of individuals (Beijersbergen et al 2014). …”

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The Evolved Functions of Procedural Fairness: An Adaptation for Politics

Bøggild

Petersen

2016

Evolutionary Psychology

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Abstract:Politics is the process of determining resource allocations within and between groups. Group life has constituted a critical and enduring part of human evolutionary history and we should expect the human mind to contain psychological adaptations for dealing with political problems. Previous research has in particular focused on adaptations designed to produce moral evaluations of political outcomes: is the allocation of resources fair? People, however, are not only concerned about outcomes. They also readily produce moral evaluations of the political processes that shape these outcomes. People have a sense of procedural fairness. In this chapter, we identify the adaptive functions of the human psychology of procedural fairness. We argue that intuitions about procedural fairness evolved to deal with adaptive problems related to the delegation of leadership and, specifically, to identify and counter-act exploitative leaders. In the chapter, we first introduce the concept of procedural fairness, review extant social psychological theories and make the case for why an evolutionary approach is needed. Next, we dissect the evolved functions of procedural fairness and review extant research in favor of the evolutionary account. Finally, we discuss how environmental mismatches between ancestral and modern politics make procedural fairness considerations even more potent in modern politics, creating a powerful source of moral outrage.Keywords: procedural fairness, procedural justice, evolutionary psychology, politics, dominance, leadership, strategic moralization 3 Politics is the process of determining resource access (Petersen 2015). In a classical definition, the political scientist, David Easton (1953), thus defined politics as the process of determining the "authoritative allocation of values for a society." In more plain terms, another classical definition described politics as about "who gets what" (Lasswell 1950). These definitions highlight that politics is ultimately about outcomes: who gets a resource and who does not. Some researchers of politics have taken this to imply that outcomes are all people care about in politics. As Ulbig (2002, p. 793) notes, the traditional notion has been that "when people get what they want they do not care how they get it". Popkin (1991, p. 99), for example, holds that people "care about ends not means; they judge government by results and are . . . indifferent about the methods by which the results were obtained". is their strategy for achieving those interests? Research has documented that such a focus is, at least in part, demand driven: people crave information about the process leading to outcomes and the strategic aspects involved (Smith et al. 2007;Trussler & Soroka 2014).This appetite for information about what goes on behind the scenes of political outcomes extends even to the personal lives of politicians: who are they, whom are they personally affiliated with, and do they practice what they preach politically? This latter observation illustrates an importan...

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Procedural justice and prisoners' mental health problems: A longitudinal study

Abstract: These findings suggest a causal relationship between procedural justice and psychological well-being. Fair and respectful treatment of prisoners is a predictor not only of prison order and prisoners' compliance but also of prisoners' psychological well-being.

Cited by 67 publications

References 29 publications

Assessing the Prison Experience for Australian First Peoples: A Prospective Research Approach

Assessing the Prison Experience for Australian First Peoples: A Prospective Research Approach

Ajuste psicológico y habilidades para la resolución de problemas en condenados por homicidio o tentativa de homicidio

The Evolved Functions of Procedural Fairness: An Adaptation for Politics

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