Rehabilitation and social behavior: Experiments in prison

Balafoutas, Loukas; Garcı́a-Gallego, Aurora; Georgantzı́s, Nikolaos; Jaber-López, Tarek; Mitrokostas, Evangelos

doi:10.1016/j.geb.2019.10.009

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“…This could be due to loss of appetite, which often accompanies depression, and may lead to undernutrition [ 39 ]. Another explanation could be that, most of the time incarcerated people are cooperative within their group and they may share what they have including food but the motivational and affective profile associated with depression could influence the ability of depressed respondents to socially interact [ 40 , 41 ]. Therefore, arranging psychological supports and recreational activities in the prison should be considered to address the depression among incarcerated people.…”

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Undernutrition and associated factors among incarcerated people in Mizan prison institute, southwest Ethiopia

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Background In resource-limited countries like Ethiopia, where malnutrition is a common problem, incarcerated people’s sentences might be changed into a death sentence if the problems of undernutrition are not well understood and managed properly. There is limited evidence on nutritional status and associated factors among incarcerated people in low- income countries like Ethiopia, including the study area. Objective To assess the magnitude of undernutrition and associated factors among incarcerated people in Mizan prison institute, southwest Ethiopia. Methods An institution based cross-sectional study was conducted among 340 incarcerated people in Mizan prison institute from April 1 to 27, 2020, using a stratified sampling technique. An interviewer-administered structured questionnaire was used to collect data. The outcome variable (undernutrition) was assessed by measuring body mass index (BMI). Binary logistic regression was used to identify factors associated with undernutrition. Adjusted odds ratio (AOR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were used to measure the strength of association and a p-value less than 0.05 was used to declare the level of statistical significance. Results The magnitude of undernutrition was 18.6% (95%CI: 14.4%, 22.8%). Being in the age category of 18–29 years (AOR = 2.60; 95%CI: 1.22,5.52), history of previous incarceration (AOR = 2.31;95%CI: 1.23,4.34), duration of imprisonment (AOR = 1.19; 95%CI: 1.05,1.34), having depression (AOR = 2.1; 95% CI: 1.10,3.97) and sleeping in group (AOR = 2.17; 95% CI: 1.18,4.01) were factors significantly associated with an increased odds of undernutrition. However, the presence of family support significantly decreased (AOR = 0.29; 95%CI: 0.12, 0.69) the odds of undernutrition. Conclusion The magnitude of undernutrition in the prison was found to be comparable to that of the general population in Ethiopia. The efforts on the ground to tackle undernutrition in the general population shall be extended to incarcerated people, especially by focusing on vulnerable groups such as those who had longer durations of incarceration, history of previous imprisonment, depression and no support.

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Undernutrition and associated factors among incarcerated people in Mizan prison institute, southwest Ethiopia

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“…4 However, recent studies have found encouraging results. Balafoutas et al (2020) randomly asked inmates to reflect on their incarceration and show that this simple intervention increased the inmates' social aptitudes. Kuziemko (2013) exploits a 1998 policy reform which canceled parole eligibility for convicts in the state of Georgia.…”

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Prison Rehabilitation Programs: Efficiency and Targeting

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The purpose of the Working Papers is to disseminate the results of research conducted by CIRANO research members in order to solicit exchanges and comments. These reports are written in the style of scientific publications. The ideas and opinions expressed in these documents are solely those of the authors.Les cahiers de la série scientifique visent à rendre accessibles les résultats des recherches effectuées par des chercheurs membres du CIRANO afin de susciter échanges et commentaires. Ces cahiers sont rédigés dans le style des publications scientifiques et n'engagent que leurs auteurs.CIRANO is a private non-profit organization incorporated under the Quebec Companies Act. Its infrastructure and research activities are funded through fees paid by member organizations, an infrastructure grant from the government of Quebec, and grants and research mandates obtained by its research teams. Le CIRANO est un organisme sans but lucratif constitué en vertu de la Loi des compagnies duQuébec. Le financement de son infrastructure et de ses activités de recherche provient des cotisations de ses organisations-membres, d'une subvention d'infrastructure du gouvernement du Québec, de même que des subventions et mandats obtenus par ses équipes de recherche. CIRANO Partners -Les partenaires du CIRANO Corporate Partners -Partenaires corporatifs Autorité des marchés financiers Bank of Canada Bell Canada BMO Financial Group Business Development Bank of Canada Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec

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“…Besides documenting patterns of behavior among inmates and comparing them to different samples, a few recent studies in prisons have considered topics such as the deterrence effect of punishment on antisocial behavior (Khadjavi, 2015 ), criminal identity and ethical behavior (Cohn et al, 2015 ), and the existence of in-group bias within a stigmatized group such as prison inmates (Balafoutas et al, 2020 ). Guo et al ( 2020 ) differentiate between inmates' behavior toward an in-prison and out-of-prison sample and show that a simple priming intervention can promote rehabilitation by strengthening inmates' pro-social behavior toward the out-group.…”

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“…To answer our research question, we use four games that have often been used to measure prosocial and antisocial behavior in the experimental economics literature: a prisoner's dilemma (henceforth PD), a trust game (henceforth TG), the equality equivalence test that elicits distributional preferences (henceforth EET), and a corruption game (henceforth CG). This choice of games is motivated by the fact that trust, reciprocity, cooperativeness, and distributional preferences are behavioral traits of essential importance for a successful rehabilitation of inmates into social and professional life after their release from prison (see Balafoutas et al, 2020 , for a discussion). In addition, our study is the first to collect data on inmates' actions in a game meant to capture essential aspects of a corruption setting.…”

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Psychopathy and Economic Behavior Among Prison Inmates: An Experiment

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This paper investigates whether there is a connection between psychopathy and certain manifestations of social and economic behavior, measured in a lab-in-the-field experiment with prison inmates. In order to test this main hypothesis, we let inmates play four games that have often been used to measure prosocial and antisocial behavior in previous experimental economics literature. Specifically, they play a prisoner's dilemma, a trust game, the equality equivalence test that elicits distributional preferences, and a corruption game. Psychopathy is measured by means of the Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy Scale (LSRP) questionnaire, which inmates filled out after having made their decisions in the four games. We find that higher scores in the LSRP are significantly correlated with anti-social behavior in the form of weaker reciprocity, lower cooperation, lower benevolence and more bribe-oriented decisions in the corruption game. In particular, not cooperating and bribe-maximizing decisions are associated with significantly higher LSRP primary and LSRP secondary scores. Not reciprocating is associated with higher LSRP primary and being spiteful with higher LSRP secondary scores.

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Rehabilitation and social behavior: Experiments in prison

Cited by 14 publications

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Undernutrition and associated factors among incarcerated people in Mizan prison institute, southwest Ethiopia

Undernutrition and associated factors among incarcerated people in Mizan prison institute, southwest Ethiopia

Prison Rehabilitation Programs: Efficiency and Targeting

Psychopathy and Economic Behavior Among Prison Inmates: An Experiment

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