Prison

About: Prison is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 25120 publications have been published within this topic receiving 470474 citations. The topic is also known as: jail & gaol.

The crimes women commit, the punishments they receive

Abstract: Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Women and Crime in Review Chapter 3 The Contemporary Women's Movement Chapter 4 American Women: Their Demographic and Status Characteristics Chapter 5 Arrest Statistics Chapter 6 Women in Court Chapter 7 Women in Prison Chapter 8 Epilogue

Jail linkage assertive community treatment services for individuals with mental illnesses.

Abstract: Persons with mental illnesses who are released from jail or prison are at high risk of psychiatric decompensation and re-arrest. This paper describes an ACT jail linkage program for this population that won an American Psychiatric Association Gold Award (2001). Based on interviews with its first 24 participants, we illustrate how they experience factors that contribute to recidivism and decompensation. Pre- and post-data are examined to explore program outcomes. Results suggest that it is possible to identify, engage, and retain people in treatment who struggle with many risk factors. We conclude that this program should be expanded and replicated.

Effective Services for Parolees with Mental Illnesses

Abstract: This article is divided into four major sections. The first describes the factors that have resulted in persons with serious mental illnesses' (PSMIs') becoming a growing segment of the correctional population. The second explores the changing face of parole supervision and the implications of those changes for the care of PSMIs on parole. Section three discusses the prevalence of mental illnesses among adult prisoners and probationers and draws inferences from those data to the parolee population. Section three also explores mental health care for prison inmates and special programs for PSMIs on probation and parole. The article concludes with several suggestions for improving parole practices to meet the needs of PSMIs.

Classification to halfway houses: a quasi‐experimental evaluation *

Abstract: Faced with prison overcrowding, institutions must seek alternatives to imprisonment. An under researched possibility is the use of halfway houses for the placement of offenders serving prison sentences. The LSI, an objective risk classification instrument, was administered to inmates from three jails. Low-scoring inmates from two of the jails were flagged for placement in correctional halfway houses, and the third jail was blind to LSI scores. The halfway house placement rate was 51 % for the jails that used LSI scores and 16% for the jail using traditional subjective classification procedures. The results suggest that subjective offender assessments run the risk of over classifying offenders whereas objective risk assessments yield more appropriate classifications.

Does conviction affect employment opportunities

Abstract: Criminal offenders frequently complain they have more difficulty than non-convicted people in obtaining employment. Many argue that the stigma of conviction sets up a vicious circle where the probability of re offending is increased by truncated employment opportunities. The problem for the offender in New Zealand is enhanced by a Justice Department require ment that applications for employment emanating from a prison must state that the applicant is a prison inmate. There are various difficulties associated with systematically studying this problem in a real-life situation. One approach is to interview personnel officers [e.g. Martin, 1962), and another to interview offenders about their experiences. A third strategy is to manipulate an "offender " variable by dispatching fictitious letters of application from offenders and non-offender controls. However, different letters (from people convicted of different offences or non-convicted controls) dispatched to the same company would arouse suspicion, particularly if written in the same writing, in similar envelopes and posted at the same time. Likewise, an identical letter [e.g. from a convicted thief) sent to different companies would not yield inter pretable results because of differential company policies regarding the employment of offenders and an absence of controls. Buikhuisen and Dijksterhuis (1971), confronting these design problems, selected three separate but " comparable " shipyards, three separate but " comparable " plants, three separate but " comparable " assurance com panies etc. To each triad of companies three letters were sent in which three writers, with different criminal records, applied for the same job. This procedure is heavily dependent upon the companies being " comparable ". Buikhuisen and Dijksterhuis fail to define criteria for " comparability ". The present study was designed to overcome these problems. Specific ally, it was concerned with investigating the amount of stigma attached to applicants who have a conviction for drunken driving or theft, as compared to non-convicted controls. The employment situation in Auckland, New Zealand, at the time of the study favoured employees. Elsewhere in New Zealand the situation was similar due to the availability of summer seasonal work.