After a guilty verdict- imprisonment
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- Created on: 06-11-14 21:00
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- After a Guilty Verdict- Imprisonment
- Planned behaviours once free
- Background- Positive intention to going straight
- Attitude to going straight
- Subjective norm crime is not normal
- Perceived behavioural control (self efficay)
- Employment means less chance to commit crime and gives future
- Study- Gillis
- Aim- study offender employment and links to re-offending
- Study theory of planned behaviour
- Method- 302 newly released offenders, 5 states in USA volunteered
- Questionnaire completed on release, 6 weeks and 6 months after
- Explored employment history and attitude to employment
- Questionnaire completed on release, 6 weeks and 6 months after
- Results- Positive attitude to work more likely to get a job
- If perceive they have a good chance of getting a job more likely to get a job
- High levels of social support, need of job, more likely to get a job
- If perceive they have a good chance of getting a job more likely to get a job
- Conclusion- If prisoners can see a future, less likely to re-offend
- Need to train offenders how to get a job
- Aim- study offender employment and links to re-offending
- Background- Positive intention to going straight
- Depression/ Suicide
- Background- CSI deaths and suicide
- Consciously self inflicted injuries leading to death
- Person had no intent to die, a cry for help as injury inflicted on themselves
- Suicide clear proof of intent to die
- Boys 15-17 are 18x's more likely
- Guilt, loneliness, bullying, lack of control, overcrowding psych illnesses
- Consciously self inflicted injuries leading to death
- Study-Dooley
- Aim- investigate unnatural deaths in English and Welsh prisons (1972-1987)
- Method- Content analysis of prison department personal papers
- Analysed social, psychiatric and forensic history of prisoners
- Compared suicide verdict to those without suicide verdict
- Analysed social, psychiatric and forensic history of prisoners
- Results- 442 unnatural deaths over 15 year
- 300 suicide
- 52 CSI
- 90 Variety of situations (accidental, lack of care)
- CSI in day or evening, prescribed major tranquilizers or psychotic episodes
- Suicides at night convicted of violent or sexual offences
- Conclusion- Suicide linked with ability to cope with guilt
- Level of mental health problems
- Background- CSI deaths and suicide
- Prison situations and roles
- Background- Social identity theory
- Group members find negative aspects of out group enhancing image
- Behaviour dependent on social group belong to
- behaviour seen as norm
- Behaviour dependent on social group belong to
- Loss of Individualization, personalisation
- Group members find negative aspects of out group enhancing image
- Study-Zimbardo
- Aim- effects on behaviour of being assigned role of prisoner or guarf
- Background- Social identity theory
- Planned behaviours once free
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