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 …

Although living in prison is difficult for all inmates, anecdotal evidence and a small number of
qualitative studies on women's prisons suggest that females have greater social support …

Procedural justice literature suggests that when criminal justice authorities treat people with
fairness and respect, people will be more likely to comply with authority's decisions and …

This article examines the effectiveness of three theoretical models (deprivation, importation,
and situational) in explaining violent incidents, incidents against correctional staff, and …

This study examined the effect of remunerative and coercive controls on inmate assault, net
of traditional controls. The sample included 4,168 male inmates nested within 185 state …

Previous research on suicide in United States prisons focused on the characteristics of
inmates who commit suicide while largely ignoring the prison context surrounding these …

The aim of the current study was to examine if prisoner characteristics (personal
characteristics and prison climate) and prison environment were related to prisoner …

The study investigated the effects of time spent in prison and quality of life before prison on
male, federally sentenced prisoners' adaptations to imprisonment, controlling for sentence …

PURPOSE: This paper applies macro-micro General Strain Theory (GST) to predict prisoner
misconduct. It is hypothesized that prison-based strain will adversely affect inmates and …