Research in a correctional setting: Constraints and biases |
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| Institution: | 1. Division of Public Health, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, 200 East 1st St Room 332, Flint, MI 48503, United States;2. Pacific Institute of Research and Evaluation, 11720 Beltsville Drive, Suite 900, Calverton, MD 20705, United States;3. Decision Sciences Institute, 1005 Main Street Unit 8120, Pawtucket, RI 02860, United States;4. Butler Hospital and Brown University, 345 Blackstone Blvd., Providence, RI 02906, United States;5. Rhode Island Department of Corrections, 39 Howard Avenue, Cranston, RI 02920, United States;6. MHM Services, Inc., 110 Turnpike Road, Suite 308, Westborough, MA 01581, United States;7. National Center for PTSD, Dissemination and Training Division, 795 Willow Road (NC-PTSD 334), Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States |
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| Abstract: | Researchers studying correctional institutions rarely have attempted to assess and conceptualize the special impact of the correctional setting on their research experience. Using a ‘research chronicle’ of a study of work programs in an Indian prison and some analytic categories based on Cohen and Taylor (1977), the present study found that research in correctional institutions faces specific problems of access and data acquisition. It is suggested that such research can be conceptualized in social exchange terms and that it can benefit from using techniques of reciprocity. More specifically, correctional research appears to call for team research, triangulation, and considerable investment in establishing rapport. Some examples of the applications of strategies are provided. |
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