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 …

Revised to reflect the latest edition of the American Psychological Association's (APA)
Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct, Celia B. Fisher's acclaimed …

PURPOSE: Prior theory and research suggest that inmate visitation can reduce misconduct
in prison. However, prior studies have not accounted for the longitudinal and heterogeneous …

Understanding and Improving Prisoner Reentry Outcomes Prisoner Reentry is an engaging
and comprehensive examination of prisoner reentry and how to improve public safety, well …

Recent scholarship has highlighted the potential implications of in-prison experiences for
prisoner reentry and, in particular, recidivism. Few penological or reentry studies, however …

Prison officers are directly responsible for transmitting penal culture and prison policy to the
confined, yet few studies of officers' impact on inmate behavior have been conducted. We …

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 …

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 …

Rates of disciplinary misconduct and violence among juvenile male inmates (N= 703)
admitted to a state prison system from 1998 to 2002 are retrospectively examined. The …