Time served and institutional misconduct: Patterns of involvement in disciplinary infractions among long-term and short-term inmates

Flanagan, Timothy J.

doi:10.1016/0047-2352(80)90111-7

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“…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.…”

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Individual and group IQ predict inmate violence

Diamond¹,

Morris²,

Barnes³

2012

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Individual and group IQ predict inmate violence

Diamond¹,

Morris²,

Barnes³

2012

Intelligence

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“…Inmate misconduct rates, particularly for individuals with short sentences, fit an inverted U-shaped curve (Flanagan, 1980). Besides the passage of time, a number of other factors have been shown to correlate with misconduct.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…Most of these other factors are from cross-sectional research. Two of these factors are age and sentence length (Brown & Spevacek, 1971;Flanagan, 1980;Flanagan, 1983;Goetting & Howson, 1986;Myers & Levy, 1978). Being young and having a longer sentence are correlated with higher rates of misconduct.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Effect of Drug Treatment on Inmate Misconduct in Federal Prisons

Langan

Pelissier

2001

Journal of Offender Rehabilitation

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This paper employs a large sample to empirically evaluate the Federal Bureau of Prisons' substance abuse treatment program's effectiveness in reducing prisoner misconduct. Results show that program graduates are 74 percent less likely to engage in misconduct over a 14-month period than a comparison group. This benefit is shared by male and female inmates alike. The substantial magnitude of the effect shows that prison-based substance abuse treatment programs provide an effective management tool to correctional administrators.

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“…The two individual-level variables most important to consider in the current context are sentence length and time served. Evidence concerning the extent and direction of the relationship between sentence length and violent misconduct has been mixed (Berk, Kriegler, & Baek, 2006;Cunningham & Sorensen, 2007a;Flanagan, 1980;Porporino, 1986). Time served by the beginning of the observation period was included to control for the stage of an inmate's confinement (Flanagan, 1980;Sorensen, Wrinkle, & Gutierrez, 1998;Thompson & Loper, 2005;Toch & Adams, 2002;Zamble, 1992).…”

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confidence: 99%