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 …

Using 88 studies from 1980 to 2006, a meta-analysis compares risk instruments and other
psychological measures on their ability to predict general (primarily nonsexual) violence in …

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 …

A retrospective review was conducted of the 2003 disciplinary records of close-custody
inmates (N= 24,514) in the Florida Department of Corrections. The frequency of various …

There are several studies in the field of Stress management suggests that Stress is
supposed to be very high among prison population. This is an attempt at reviewing the …

Abstract The Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R; RD Hare, 1991, 2003) is the most
empirically validated instrument for measuring psychopathy in correctional and forensic …

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 …

The characteristics of, and 2003 disciplinary data on, 51,527 inmates in the Florida
Department of Corrections, including 9,586 inmates who had been convicted of some …

Extant research indicates that inmates with street gang history are prone for prison
misconduct but that inmates convicted of homicide offenses are less likely to be …