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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.
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01 Jun 2004
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the relationship between self-esteem and performance in a prison environment, and found that the presentation of self in a prisoner's performance can affect her performance as a prisoner.
Abstract: Introduction 1. Setting the scene: the research in context 2. Research methods 3. Learning the rules, managing feelings: becoming a prison officer 4. Them and us? How officers see prisoners 5. Emotion and performance: the presentation of self in prisons 6. When things go wrong: suicide and conflict 7. How prison officers see their work, themselves and each other 8. Bringing it all back home? Stories of husbands and wives 9. Conclusions: doing prison work
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TL;DR: On measures of recidivism, the Amity treatment group had significantly lower rates of reinc incarceration than the control group, but in multivariate analysis of time to first reincarceration, this main treatment effect disappeared and other factors became significant predictors of delayed time to reinc incarceration.
Abstract: Few studies have examined outcomes of prison-based treatment programs over a 5-year observation period. The present analysis was based on a sample of 715 prisoners randomly assigned either to the A...
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TL;DR: Findings show the beneficial effects of treatment components oriented toward women's needs and support the integration of GRT in prison programs for women.
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TL;DR: The results of a recent longitudinal study of coping in prison are reviewed and it is concluded that the empirical study of the process of imprisonment and the behavioral precursors of criminal actions can help to maximize the effectiveness of treatment programs.
Abstract: The results of a recent longitudinal study of coping in prison are reviewed with respect to their implications for rehabilitation. The failure of the conditions of ordinary imprisonment to change behavior generally, and the demonstration of substantial coping deficits among prisoners in particular, are both justification for increased adoption of treatment programs aimed at behavioral change. More specifically, the data indicate that programs should begin at the start of a prison term rather than later, and they also delineate some of the particular targets for change. These all justify the conclusion that the empirical study of the process of imprisonment and the behavioral precursors of criminal actions can help to maximize the effectiveness of treatment programs.
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