Are the "worst of the worst" self-injurious prisoners more likely to end up in long-term maximum-security administrative segregation?

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1034-1050

  Lanes, Eric Charles ^a  

^a Michigan Department of Corrections   (United States)

Author keywords

administrative segregation; prisoners; risk assessment; self injurious behavior

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRISONER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DANGEROUS BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MICHIGAN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRISONERS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SECURITY MEASURES; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; VIOLENCE;

EID: 80053597946     PISSN: 0306624X     EISSN: 15526933     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0306624X10378494     Document Type: Article

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