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 …

Despite research demonstrating that approximately 5% of study populations are composed
of severely antisocial persons who account for a disproportionate share of problem …

Crime is an expensive aspect of society, and each year huge amounts of public money are
spent on the courts, police, probation services, and prisons, while the human costs in terms …

In this article, we examine key propositions from Colvin, Cullen, and Vander Ven's
Differential Coercion/Social Support Theory (DCSST) to explain inmate violence …

BACKGROUND: Across multiple conceptual models in the social and behavioral sciences,
the onset of antisocial behavior is inversely related to the developmental course and severity …

Prior research has revealed important insights about some factors which increase the
probability that individuals will commit murder; however, existing studies rely on …

This study involved a comparison of the influences on inmate misconduct among female and
male inmates. Data were collected from over 5,500 inmates housed in 46 facilities in Ohio …

Purpose This study was designed to investigate whether importation factors predict all forms
of prison misconduct and recidivism or just the more serious forms. Methods Six importation …

Abstract Purpose Differential Coercion and Social Support (DCSS) theory is used to
examine whether sources of coercion and social support differ in their effects on inmate …

While many scholars have investigated potential predictors of institutional misconduct
among adult inmates, few have assessed the determinants of misconduct among …