限制性住房减量计划对暴力和非暴力不当行为的实验影响

IF 2.5 1区社会学 Q1 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

Journal of Criminal Justice Pub Date : 2025-07-01 DOI:10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102466

Jennifer J. Tostlebe , David C. Pyrooz , Ryan M. Labrecque , Bert Useem

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摘要

目的本研究解决了监狱限制性住房政策、实践和研究面临的两个挑战。首先，减少限制性住房的占地面积和改善限制条件的总体需求。其次，长期以来需要通过排除选择偏差来提供限制性住房影响的可信证据。俄勒冈州惩教部门为长期隔离的囚犯制定并实施了一项逐步退出的计划，这项研究为其对不当行为的影响提供了实验证据。方法：在2020年至2022年期间，211名囚犯被随机分配到照常工作的条件下（n=102），即强化管理单元，或自愿转移到治疗条件下（n=109），一个新设计的降级单元。整个样本的官方记录与随机分配后约三个月对112名囚犯的采访相匹配。报告了意向治疗（ITT）和当地平均治疗效果（LATE），测试了预先登记的官方记录假设和限制性住房和一般人群环境中不当行为的自我报告。结果：除限制性住房中暴力不当行为的官方记录增加外，随机化后的ITT和LATE估计对限制性住房中不当行为的官方报告和自我报告措施的降格单元条件基本无效。对限制住房后官员在一般人群中的不当行为的估计表明，在逐步退出的单位和一切照旧的情况下，没有明显的群体差异。结论对调查结果的解释受限于逐步退出计划的不完全实施和COVID-19造成的中断。然而，研究结果表明，将囚犯安置在限制较少的条件下，而不增加重返监狱后的不当行为是可能的。本研究可作为未来评估的基准，并举例说明全球事件如何影响惩教研究。

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Experimental effects of a restrictive housing step-down program on violent and non-violent misconduct

Purpose

This study addresses two issues that challenge policy, practice, and research on restrictive housing in prisons. First, the overarching need to reduce the footprint of restrictive housing and improve conditions of confinement. Second, the longstanding need to generate credible evidence of the effects of restrictive housing by ruling out selection bias. The Oregon Department of Corrections developed and implemented a step-down program for prisoners in long-term segregation and this study offers experimental evidence of its effects on misconduct.

Methods

Between 2020 and 2022, 211 prisoners were randomly assigned to either remain in the business-as-usual condition (n=102), the intensive management unit, or voluntarily transfer to the treatment condition (n=109), a newly designed step-down unit. Official records for the full sample are paired with interviews conducted with 112 prisoners about three months post-randomization. Intent-to-treat (ITT) and local average treatment effects (LATE) are reported, testing preregistered hypotheses of official records and self-reports of misconduct in restrictive housing and general population settings.

Results

Post-randomization ITT and LATE estimates of the step-down unit condition on official report and self-report measures of misconduct in restrictive housing largely indicated null effects, with the exception of an increase in official records of violent misconduct in restrictive housing. Estimates of post-restrictive housing official misconduct in the general population indicated no meaningful group differences between the step-down unit and the business-as-usual conditions.

Conclusions

The interpretation of findings is limited by the incomplete implementation of the step-down program and disruptions caused by COVID-19. However, the results suggest it is possible to house people in less restrictive conditions without increases in misconduct upon reentry to the general prison population. This study serves as a baseline for future assessments and exemplifies how global events can impact correctional research.

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Journal of Criminal Justice CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY-

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6.90

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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.