Doctoral Dissertation Research: Maintaining Prison Order: Understanding Causes and Consequences of Inmate Misconduct Within and Across Ohio Correctional Facilities

标题：博士论文研究：维持监狱秩序：了解俄亥俄州惩教设施内和整个惩教设施内囚犯不当行为的原因和后果摘要：从现有的监狱不当行为研究中出现的一个主题是，不当行为的程度在设施环境中存在显着差异，而管理实践对这些差异有很大影响。与管理实践相关的问题包括如何监督囚犯，工作人员和行政人员如何处理不当行为事件，以及囚犯如何看待这些事件的处理。从规范的角度来看，最后一个问题可能与囚犯对权威的不尊重导致的后续不当行为的可能性有关。本研究利用对囚犯和惩教官员的调查收集的数据，以及官方记录和管理人员访谈，对俄亥俄州32个成人惩教机构内部和整个成人惩教机构的这些过程进行了调查。这些发现应该通过开发比以前提供的更适当的具体的囚犯行为模型来促进现有的知识，并更仔细地考虑不同的理论观点。该研究的一些更广泛的影响是：(a)为关于个人与环境对囚犯行为影响的相对重要性的理论辩论提供了独特而严谨的贡献，(b)相关观察是否受到自我报告与官方囚犯行为测量分析的制约，(c)为俄亥俄州的惩教实践提供信息，(d)提供应推广到其他司法管辖区的结果。为了达到这些目的，研究人员将把重点放在俄亥俄州32个监狱中所有被调查的囚犯身上，并进行三个阶段的分析。在第一阶段，他们将检查犯人的特征对他们参与个人犯罪、财产犯罪、毒品犯罪或违反一般规则的几率的相对影响。将进行分析，以探讨不同设施的影响是否显著不同，设施特征对不同监狱的不当行为率的相对影响是什么，以及基于特定设施特征的差异，囚犯特征对不同设施的不当行为发生率的影响是什么。在第二阶段，研究人员将研究对不当行为的正式反应与囚犯特征对囚犯在处理和制裁其不当行为时公平感的相对影响。将进行分析，以探讨不同设施的影响是否有显著差异，并确定设施特征对囚犯对程序（不满）满意度和对不当行为的制裁程度的影响。此外，研究人员还将调查犯人对公平待遇的感知是否会因设施特征的不同而不同，以及在俄亥俄州的惩教设施中，在对犯人不当行为的侦查、处理和制裁方面是否存在种族和/或性别差异。最后，在第三阶段，研究人员将研究对不当行为的正式反应与囚犯特征对随后自我报告的不当行为几率的相对影响。将进行分析，以调查对不当行为的正式回应与囚犯特征对随后被正式发现的不当行为的几率的相对影响。

Primary Investigators: John Wooldredge and Benjamin StinerTitle: Doctoral Dissertation Research: Maintaining Prison Order: Understanding Causes and Consequences of Inmate Misconduct Within and Across Ohio Correctional Facilities0715515AbstractA theme emerging from the extant research on prison misconduct is that levels of misconduct vary significantly across facility environments, and management practices contribute heavily to these differences. Related to management practices are issues regarding how inmates are supervised, how staff and administrators handle incidents of misconduct, and how inmates perceive the handling of these incidents. From a normative perspective, this last issue might be linked to the odds of subsequent misconduct via inmate (dis)respect toward authority. Using data collected from surveys of inmates and correctional officers, along with official records and administrator interviews, this study examines these processes within and across the 32 adult correctional facilities in Ohio. The findings should contribute to the existing knowledge by developing more properly specified models of inmate behaviors than have previously been offered, with more careful consideration paid to different theoretical perspectives. Some of the broader impacts of the study are (a) to offer a unique and rigorous contribution to the theoretical debate over the relative importance of individual versus environmental effects on inmate behaviors, (b) whether related observations are conditioned by analyses of self-report versus official measures of inmate behavior, (c) to inform correctional practice in Ohio, and (d) to provide results that should be generalizeable to other jurisdictions. Toward these ends, the researchers will focus on all surveyed inmates from 32 facilities in Ohio and pursue three stages of analysis. In stage one, they will examine the relative effects of inmate characteristics on their odds of engaging in personal crimes, property crimes, drug crimes, or general rule violations. Analyses will be conducted to explore whether the effects vary significantly across facilities, what are the relative effects of facility characteristics on misconduct rates across prisons, and what are the effects of inmate characteristics on the odds of misconduct differ across facilities based on differences in particular facility characteristics. In Stage two, the researchers will examine the relative effects of formal responses to misconduct versus inmate characteristics on inmate perceptions of fairness regarding the processing and sanctioning of their misconduct. Analyses will be conducted to explore whether the effects vary significantly across facilities, and identify the effects of facility characteristics on levels of inmate (dis)satisfaction with procedures and sanctions for misconduct. In addition, the reseasrchers will investigate whether inmate effects on their perceptions of fairness in treatment differ across facilities based on differences in particular facility characteristics, and whether racial and/or gender disparities exist in the detection, processing and sanctioning of inmate misconduct exist within Ohio correctional facilities. Finally, in stage three, the researchers will study the relative effects of formal responses to misconduct versus inmate characteristics on the odds of subsequent self-reported misconduct. Analyses will be performed to investigate the relative effects of formal responses to misconduct versus inmate characteristics on the odds of subsequent officially detected misconduct.