Male and Femaile Inmates to Research Paper

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This seems logical; would society want prison to be a place to which individuals aspired to go?

Research Method

Summary scales were developed by using predefined theories to group similar items into scalable sets

The scales and associated coefficient data were evaluated according to standard test reliability statistics

Questionnaires were designed to uncover more of a holistic picture of events and attitudes of those confined

ANOVAs used to determine whether inmates in different units reacted differently to the 4-month confinement period; finding that certain items (prison evaluation, problems with other inmates, dissatisfaction with the prison) increased; while ratings of anger, depression, anxiety and degree of control did not statistically differ

Limitations

Relatively small sample to extrapolate large amounts of assumptions

Non-longitudinal in nature

Some assumptions in research based on past literature reviews

While statistical tests were run on correlation of data sets internally, there may have been a number of truth issues based on respondents

Details need to be replicated with other p
oulations

Commentary

At the time of this study, the institution was one of the only federal institutions with both male and female inmates

Several details are alluded to, but not flushed out: ethnicity, tye of crime, ersonal situation, number of times incarcerated, etc.

One might reasonably ask -- just how comfortable and leasant "should" incarceration be?

The article (and research) comletely ignore the urose of the study; while the authors admit the results suort a two-comonent model of the effects of rison confinement, we are left with the issue: is this ure research or is there a reason for understanding that the rocess of confinement is discomfiting for many.

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Author(s): Paul Paulus and Mary Dzindolet, University of Texas at Arlington

Article Title: Reactions of Male and Female Inmates to Prison Confinement -- Further Evidence for a Two-Comonent Model

Publisher: American Association for Correctional Psychology

Publication: Criminal Justice and Behavior

Publication Tye: Peer reviewed and refereed journal

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