Examining facility-level differences in the early decisions of the disciplinary process and use of disciplinary segregation

IF 3.3 1区社会学 Q1 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

Journal of Criminal Justice Pub Date : 2025-07-01 DOI:10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102471

Michael Palmieri, Susan McNeeley

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Disciplinary segregation (DS) – a type of restrictive housing (RH) in which incarcerated people who violate prison rules are held for a fixed term – is widely used in U.S. prisons. Most research on DS has focused on its effects on incarcerated people. Fewer studies have examined the application of DS. Using focal concerns and cumulative disadvantage perspectives, we explore whether compositional effects or facility-level differences in earlier discipline processing can explain facility-level differences in the use of DS. This study utilized a retrospective non-experimental, cross-sectional design to examine who receives discipline, for what, and for how long in Minnesota prisons. We use a sample of approximately 2600 incarcerated people's first formal discipline case. Findings tell us that, within Minnesota prisons, the differences in disciplinary outcomes are not solely the result of compositional differences in the people who are incarcerated or the types of cases that are seen. Findings also indicate that upstream decisions can have significant downstream consequences, suggesting a compounding effect. Policy implications and recommendations are also discussed.

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在纪律程序的早期决定和纪律隔离的使用中，检查设施层面的差异

纪律隔离（DS）是一种限制性住房（RH），违反监狱规定的囚犯被关押在固定期限内，在美国监狱中被广泛使用。大多数关于退行性痴呆的研究都集中在它对被监禁的人的影响上。很少有研究检查DS的应用。采用焦点关注和累积劣势的视角，我们探讨了早期学科加工的构成效应或设施水平差异是否可以解释设施水平差异在DS使用中的作用。本研究采用回顾性、非实验性、横断面设计来考察明尼苏达州监狱中谁受到纪律处分、纪律处分的原因以及纪律处分的时间。我们使用了大约2600个被监禁的人的第一个正式纪律案例的样本。研究结果告诉我们，在明尼苏达州的监狱中，纪律处分结果的差异不仅仅是被监禁人员的构成差异或所见案件类型的差异的结果。研究结果还表明，上游决策可能对下游产生重大影响，这表明存在复合效应。本文还讨论了政策影响和建议。

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Journal of Criminal Justice CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY-

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6.90

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9.10%

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审稿时长

23 days

期刊介绍： The Journal of Criminal Justice is an international journal intended to fill the present need for the dissemination of new information, ideas and methods, to both practitioners and academicians in the criminal justice area. The Journal is concerned with all aspects of the criminal justice system in terms of their relationships to each other. Although materials are presented relating to crime and the individual elements of the criminal justice system, the emphasis of the Journal is to tie together the functioning of these elements and to illustrate the effects of their interactions. Articles that reflect the application of new disciplines or analytical methodologies to the problems of criminal justice are of special interest. Since the purpose of the Journal is to provide a forum for the dissemination of new ideas, new information, and the application of new methods to the problems and functions of the criminal justice system, the Journal emphasizes innovation and creative thought of the highest quality.