Prison Violence, Prison Culture, and Offender Change: New Directions for Research, Theory, Policy, and practice

TL;DR: This paper examined the results of evidence-based reviews of what works in several areas, including the general and specific impact of prison and jail sentences, sentencing alternatives (or preentry strategies), and the recent proliferation of reentry initiatives.

Abstract: Abstract Prison misconduct generates serious problems and costs in prisons across the United States. This study examined whether prisoners’ ways of coping affected their involvement in serious prison misconduct. The study also examined the traditional predictors of serious prison misconduct and their relationship to coping. The research included self-report surveys administered to a stratified random sample of 312 prisoners in medium- and maximum-security facilities as well as data extracted from the prison system’s database. Three of the eight ways of coping studied were directly related to serious misconduct along with several of the traditional predictors.

TL;DR: The authors examined whether prisoners' ways of coping affected their involvement in serious prison misconduct and found that three of the eight coping studied were directly related to serious misconduct along with several of the traditional predictors.