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

主要研究者：约翰wooldredge和本杰明stiner标题：博士论文研究：维持监狱秩序：了解内部和整个俄亥俄州惩教设施的囚犯不当行为的原因和后果Abstract 0715515从监狱不当行为的现存研究出现的一个主题是，不当行为的水平有很大的不同设施的环境，和管理实践大大有助于这些差异。与管理做法有关的问题是如何监督囚犯，工作人员和管理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，这最后一个问题可能与随后的不当行为的可能性通过囚犯（不）尊重权威。本研究使用从囚犯和惩教人员的调查中收集的数据，沿着官方记录和管理员访谈，研究了俄亥俄州32个成人惩教设施内和跨这些过程。研究结果应有助于现有的知识，制定更适当的指定模型的囚犯行为比以前提供的，更仔细的考虑支付给不同的理论观点。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格的贡献，（B）相关观察是否受到自我报告与囚犯行为官方措施分析的制约，（c）为俄亥俄州的矫正实践提供信息，及（d）提供可推广至其他司法管辖区的结果。为了实现这些目标，研究人员将重点关注来自俄亥俄州32个设施的所有接受调查的囚犯，并进行三个阶段的分析。 在第一阶段，他们将研究囚犯特征对他们从事人身犯罪、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有显着差异，设施特征对监狱不当行为率的相对影响是什么，以及囚犯特征对不当行为几率的影响是什么？基于特定设施特征的差异，设施之间存在差异。 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对处理和制裁其不当行为的公平性的看法的相对影响。 将进行分析，以探讨不同设施的影响是否有显着差异，并确定设施的特点对囚犯（不）满意程度的程序和不当行为的制裁的影响。 此外，研究人员还将调查囚犯对公平待遇的看法是否会因特定设施特征的差异而有所不同，以及在俄亥俄州惩教设施内，在对囚犯不当行为的检测、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不当行为的可能性的相对影响。 将进行分析，以调查对不当行为的正式反应与囚犯特征对随后正式发现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.