Criminal psychology: Effect of imprisonment (social)

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What did Farrington et al look at (imprisonment)
Looked at a strict effect of strict prison conditions in two 'boot camp' regimes. Thorn cross, 16 hour a day programme of activities including military drilling. Colchester young offenders institution, programme similar to military corrective trainin
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What did Farrington et al find 2 years after release?
The expected reconvicted rates were compared to actual conviction rates. Thorn cross group took longer to reoffend and committed significantly fewer crimes.
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What did Farrington conclude (imprisonment)
the reduction in reoffending was probably due to the education, employment mentoring and through-care components rather than to the drilling and physical training
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Who examined the factors associated with self-harm in young prisoners?
Liebling (1995)
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What did Liebling find?
suicide attempters were more likely to report multiple family breakdowns, local authority placement as a result of family breakdown, truancy as a result of bullying, experiences sexual abuse and previous episodes of self-harm
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Who investigated suicide within prison?
Dooley (1990). HM prison service (2003)
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Outline Dooley's findings
the suicide rate of prisoners is four times that of the general population and that young offender may be at particular risk
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What did the HM Prison service find after surveying young people and staff in prison?
The most successful regimes were those where young people received consistent treatment by staff and where staff showed genuine concern or interest in prisoner's welfare and progress
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Outline the dispositional explanation
Offenders enter prison with particular characteristics and these predict whether they are more likely to engage in interpersonal aggression. Aggression is not a product of the institution but the individual
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Who investigated the dispositional model?
Adams (1981)
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What did Adams (1981) find?
Younger inmates are thought to have a more difficult time than older inmates when adjusting to prison life, as a result, they are more likely to have confrontations with other inmates an staff and view violence as appropriate during conflicts
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Outline the situation explanation of prison violence
It is the situational factors of prison that account for aggression and that the experience of imprisonment causes inmates to stress and frustration, which leads to aggression and violence
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Who investigated the situational model?
Harer and Steffensmeier (1996)
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What did Harer and Steffensmeier (1996) find?
suggest that an inmate's aggressive behaviour is a response to the problems and frustrations of adjusting to loss of freedom and to the isolation, boredom and loneliness of being in prison
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Who investigated community based employement schemes in relation to reducing offending
Gillis and Nafekh (2005)
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What did Gillis and Nafekh (2005) investigate?
the effect of recidivism rates of a community based employment scheme
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Outline the sample used by Gillis and Nafekh (2005)
Offenders who were conditionally released, 23525 individuals
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Outline the procedure used by Gillis and Nafekh (2005)
Divided into 2 groups, employed on a special community based programme/not. Those one employment programme prior to finishing their sentence were more likely to remain on custodial release, and less likely to return to custody with a new offence
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