Incapacitation: Revisiting an Old Question with a New Method and New Data

We use the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 to obtain estimates of the number of crimes avoided through incapacitation of individual offenders. Incarcerated individuals are matched to comparable non-incarcerated counterparts using propensity score matching. Propensity scores for incarceration are calculated using a wide variety of time-stable and time-varying confounding variables. We separately analyze juvenile (age 16 or 17) and adult (age 18 or 19) incapacitation effects. Our best estimate is that between 6.2 and 14.1 offenses are prevented per year of juvenile incarceration, and 4.9 to 8.4 offenses are prevented per year of adult incarceration.

The Prison Boom and the Decline of American Citizenship

The US imprisonment rate increased fivefold in the three decades from 1975 to 2005. Growth in the scale of criminal punishment was linked partly to a more punitive politics that repudiated the goal of rehabilitation, and partly to the collapse of economic opportunity for young unskilled men in inner cities. The growth of the penal system produced extraordinary rates of incarceration among recent cohorts of young black men with little schooling. We can understand the growth of incarceration to produce and erosion of citizenship among young black men, weakening the web of mutual obligation that defines full membership in American society.

我国服刑人员A型人格特征研究

本研究采用张伯源修订的A型行为人格问卷对我国9283名服刑人员进行测试,结果发现服刑人员的A型人格的比例高于普通人群,婚姻状况、不同刑期、不同犯罪类型、与家人的关系和典型A型人格之间不存在必然联系,年龄、家庭状况和性别与A型人格存在一定的关系。     

对狱政管理专业课程体系改革的探讨

以专业能力为基础构建适应监狱工作发展需要的课程体系 ,使课程内容的先进性与实用性有机地结合 ,校内课程与校外课程互补互动 ,必修课与选修课融为一体 ,并实施以能力为基础的目标教学 ,改革教学模式、教学方式 ,从学科本位向能力本位方向转变 ,从封闭式向开放式转变 ,是当前素质教育的必然要求。     

对监管现场防控模式问题的思考

监狱安全在监狱全局工作中居首要地位。罪犯现场防控必须要遵循一定的原则;其防控模式以＂五大防控系统＂为基本框架,以＂五大重点＂为罪犯现场防控的关键点,以全面落实＂四大禁止措施＂为监管现场防控的着力点,以民警直接管理主导罪犯现场全程管控为重要手段,以发现异常、有效处置为罪犯现场防控的核心要求。目前,现行罪犯现场防控工作存在缺陷需要创新监管措施。     

提篮桥监狱与上海监狱制度的现代化初探

上海租界是上海现代化的起源地,在租界里开始了上海现代化的脚步,上海监狱制度的现代化也肇始于租界。提篮桥监狱是上海规模最大的具有现代化监狱管理制度的监狱,是租界监狱的代表作,也是上海监狱制度现代化转型的缩影。因此,上海监狱制度的现代化始于提篮桥监狱。提篮桥监狱以其精良的设备、现代化的管理制度影响着上海监狱制度的现代化,传播着西方现代监狱文明理念。     

Spending the Golden Years Behind Bars: Predictors of Mental Health Issues Among Geriatric Prisoners

Mental illness in older inmates remains an underexplored topic of interest for prison research. The present study addresses gaps in extant literature, using a nationally representative sample of 1,907 male and female geriatric inmates in the United States (age range 50–84 years; M = 56) to analyze the association between mental health and predictors, such as gender, victimization, physical illnesses, and protective/ameliorative factors. The authors discuss their findings in relation to a theoretical framework that integrates the importation and deprivation models, as well as provide discourse on policy implications and future directions for research on older prison inmates.