Shanhe Jiang, Eric G. Lambert, Monica Solinas-Saunders, Jianhong Liu, Jinwu Zhang
{"title":"Using the Job Demands-Resources Model to Examine Possible Correlates of Fear of Being Victimized at Work Among Chinese Prison Officers","authors":"Shanhe Jiang, Eric G. Lambert, Monica Solinas-Saunders, Jianhong Liu, Jinwu Zhang","doi":"10.1177/00328855241263520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00328855241263520","url":null,"abstract":"This study surveyed 322 officers at two prisons in China to investigate the influence of job demands (i.e., role overload and routinization), job resources (i.e., training, job autonomy, instrumental communication, and supervision), and demographic characteristics on workplace fear of victimization. Ordinary least squares (OLS) regression analysis indicated role overload was related to higher levels of fear, while training and job autonomy were related to lower levels. Routinization, instrumental communication, and supervision had nonsignificant effects. Male officers were more likely to report higher fear of victimization, as did staff at one of the two prisons.","PeriodicalId":513121,"journal":{"name":"The Prison Journal","volume":"38 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141800120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Did COVID-19 Affect News Media Representations of Prisons, Inmates, and Correctional Officers? A Look Prior and Postpandemic","authors":"J. Weger, Michael Weinrath, Steven Kohm","doi":"10.1177/00328855241240138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00328855241240138","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines news media representations of Canadian prisons pre and post-coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Of interest was how media framed coverage of punishment and prisons with respect to discrete, event-driven traditional myths (prisons are dangerous, inmates are violent, correctional officers are cruel) versus more systemic, reform-oriented stories (more rehabilitation needed, racialized peoples over-represented, prison conditions harsh). In a pre-post COVID-19 content analysis of 182 stories, prison articles actually declined. Some traditional prison myths were still present and reinforced, but other myths were challenged and some were rarely seen. Discussions of prison reform were also frequently observed and grew during the pandemic.","PeriodicalId":513121,"journal":{"name":"The Prison Journal","volume":"99 14","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140370632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Sociology of Contraband: Examining the Correlates of Illicit Drugs, Cellphones, and Weapons in U.S. Prisons","authors":"Bryce E. Peterson, Ki Deuk Kim, Rochisha Shukla","doi":"10.1177/00328855241240143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00328855241240143","url":null,"abstract":"Contraband negatively affects the safety and security of correctional institutions. Extant research has relied on descriptive analyses or limited measures of contraband. Drawing upon established theories of institutional misbehavior—the deprivation model, importation model, and management perspective–the study examines facility-level and correctional population characteristic correlates of contraband in 301 prisons across six U.S. states. Findings confirm the relevance of individually examining risk factors by type of contraband, including drugs, cellphones, weapons, and total contraband. Lower security prisons, prisons providing substance use treatment, and those employing more women staff had fewer contraband drugs, weapons, and cellphones. Providing outside work opportunities and work-release programs also reduced contraband weapons.","PeriodicalId":513121,"journal":{"name":"The Prison Journal","volume":"54 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140378473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ann De Shalit, Emily van der Meulen, Sandra Ka Hon Chu, Rhiannon Thomas
{"title":"Drug Use Stigma and Reprisal: Barriers to Prison Needle Exchange in Canada","authors":"Ann De Shalit, Emily van der Meulen, Sandra Ka Hon Chu, Rhiannon Thomas","doi":"10.1177/00328855241240142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00328855241240142","url":null,"abstract":"After years of advocacy by a range of civil society groups, supported by scholarly and empirical research, Canada's federal prison service implemented a needle exchange program at select carceral institutions in 2018. Since the program rollout, however, uptake has remained minimal. To understand why, we conducted the first independent and national study of the program, interviewing 30 people who were incarcerated at one of the prisons with a needle exchange. Our findings show that drug use stigma and anticipated or actual reprisal from correctional officers, particularly related to breaches of confidentiality for program participants, markedly impede access and utilization.","PeriodicalId":513121,"journal":{"name":"The Prison Journal","volume":"120 32","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140378685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Why Is Your Interpretation of My Experience the Only One That Counts?” A Comparison of Providers’ and Young Women's Perceptions of Their Needs","authors":"Jill Leslie Rosenbaum","doi":"10.1177/00328855241240135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00328855241240135","url":null,"abstract":"This article draws on the author's 2023 Western Society of Criminology Paul Tappan Award address on her seminal work with adolescent girls in Flint Michigan. Echoing the major theme from that address, the article focuses on the need for practitioners and academics to collaborate and more actively engage in targeting programs relevant to the needs of young women. The Flint study identified great discrepancies between providers and girls regarding program relevancy and effectiveness, underscoring the importance of including adolescent girls’ voice in program development and evaluation, which is finally being addressed in contemporary programming.","PeriodicalId":513121,"journal":{"name":"The Prison Journal","volume":" February","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140383205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Susana Alves, Cristina Cabras, Diego Bellini, Marino Bonaiuto
{"title":"Perceived Environmental Quality Indicators as Health-Enabling Elements Within Prisons","authors":"Susana Alves, Cristina Cabras, Diego Bellini, Marino Bonaiuto","doi":"10.1177/00328855231222443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00328855231222443","url":null,"abstract":"This study evaluates the transition from an older to a new prison facility in Italy to help researchers understand the health-enabling features within prisons from incarcerated persons’ point of view. A total of 216 inmates completed a questionnaire that measured the prison's environmental quality and quality-of-life related constructs. Bivariate correlations show that as inmates’ environmental perceptions improve, so does their place evaluation. When the older and newer prisons were compared, the results revealed the newer prison was more positively evaluated in terms of care of significant spaces, presence of light, beauty, safety, sociability, concentration, and satisfaction.","PeriodicalId":513121,"journal":{"name":"The Prison Journal","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139602771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Typology of Family Relationships among Older Adults in Prison","authors":"Hila Avieli","doi":"10.1177/00328855231222442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00328855231222442","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the growing interest in older incarcerated persons, the issue of their relationships with their families has been understudied. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to explore the ways in which older adults in prison construct, maintain, and navigate familial relationships with spouses and/or adult children. Interpretive phenomenological analysis was utilized to analyze interviews with 33 incarcerated older adults. Three themes emerged: (1) Keeping in touch; (2) cutting-off, and (3) forming an alternative family. Socioemotional selectivity theory is used to discuss the findings, suggesting that most participants wished to keep in contact with their families.","PeriodicalId":513121,"journal":{"name":"The Prison Journal","volume":" 64","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139627770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Prison to Higher Ed Pipeline: The Education Transition Coordination Program","authors":"Stephanie Hartwell, Toycia Collins, Oliva Furlow, Trent Sheldon, Sheryl Kubiak, Terrell Topps","doi":"10.1177/00328855231222411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00328855231222411","url":null,"abstract":"The Educational Transition Coordination program is a pilot intervention at Wayne State University with the goals of increasing the well-being and economic mobility of formerly incarcerated individuals who confront both structural and functional difficulties navigating community reentry. This article describes the program, the population served, the evaluation to date, including functional and structural barriers, and policy implications.","PeriodicalId":513121,"journal":{"name":"The Prison Journal","volume":"30 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139441587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eric G. Lambert, N. Hogan, Monica Solinas-Saunders, W. Morrow, S. Vickovic
{"title":"Examining the Mediating Effects of Organizational Trust on the Relationship between Organizational Justice and Job Attitudes among Correctional Staff","authors":"Eric G. Lambert, N. Hogan, Monica Solinas-Saunders, W. Morrow, S. Vickovic","doi":"10.1177/00328855231222444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00328855231222444","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing from organizational justice theory, this study examined the mediating effects of organizational trust on the association between organizational justice (i.e. in the forms of distributive and procedural justice) and the job attitudes of job satisfaction and organizational commitment in a sample of 220 correctional staff employed full-time at a high-security prison in the U.S. Midwest. Ordinary least squares regression results indicated that participant perceptions of organizational trust fully mediated the association between procedural justice and job satisfaction, but only partially mediated the association between distributive justice and job satisfaction. Further, organizational trust fully mediated the association between both distributive and procedural organizational justice and staff commitment toward the organization.","PeriodicalId":513121,"journal":{"name":"The Prison Journal","volume":"42 28","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139442244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Prison JournalPub Date : 2019-06-01Epub Date: 2019-03-15DOI: 10.1177/0032885519837237
Jaclyn M White Hughto, Kirsty A Clark
{"title":"Designing a Transgender Health Training for Correctional Health Care Providers: A Feasibility Study.","authors":"Jaclyn M White Hughto, Kirsty A Clark","doi":"10.1177/0032885519837237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0032885519837237","url":null,"abstract":"Limited provider knowledge of transgender health contributes to stigmatizing interactions and access-to-care challenges for incarcerated transgender people. Drawing on interviews with recently incarcerated transgender individuals and correctional staff, a transgender health care provider training was developed and piloted. Providers indicated the training gave them the requisite competencies to offer gender-affirming care to transgender patients. Participants also rated the intervention to be highly acceptable and feasible and recommended it be provided to others. In addition, results suggested that the training may increase providers’ transgender-related knowledge. Further testing of the intervention is warranted.","PeriodicalId":513121,"journal":{"name":"The Prison Journal","volume":"99 3","pages":"329-342"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0032885519837237","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"37054524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}