Purpose Inmate rule violations or “misconducts” reflect offending within a prison, and this
study involved a systematic review of studies of the causes/correlates of inmate misconduct …

At the end of 2010, prisons in the United States incarcerated over 1,605,127 inmates,
yielding an imprisonment rate of 497 per 100,000 residents (Guerino, Harrison, & Sabol …

This study takes stock of empirical research examining the relationship between gang
membership and offending by subjecting this large body of work to a meta-analysis …

Explanations of prison violence and other forms of misconduct have been dominated by
three competing models:(a) the deprivation model,(b) the importation model, and (c) the …

The aim of the current study was to examine if prisoner characteristics (personal
characteristics and prison climate) and prison environment were related to prisoner …

PURPOSE: This paper applies macro-micro General Strain Theory (GST) to predict prisoner
misconduct. It is hypothesized that prison-based strain will adversely affect inmates and …

The importation model is a venerable theoretical explanation for inmate misconduct but it
has not been extended in nearly 50 years. The current study advances a life course …

Sykes coined the phrase “pains of imprisonment” to describe those deprivations in prison
that most prisoners experience as particularly difficult to handle. This study is an empirical …

Researchers have not yet devoted sufficient attention to the effect of prison architecture on
inmate misconduct. Using data from the population of male prisoners in Texas, the authors …

Report (Washington, DC: US Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office of
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 2006). 8. To denote the wide discretion of …