TY - JOUR
T1 - Inmate adjustment and change during shock incarceration
T2 - The impact of correctional boot camp programs
AU - Mackenzie, Doris Layton
AU - Shaw, James W.
N1 - Funding Information:
* An earlier version of this paper was presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Chicago, 1988. This investigation was supported in part by grant #87-IJ-CX-0020 from the National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice to the Louisiana State University for a cooperative project with the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections (LDPSC). Opinions expressed in this paper are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the U.S. Department of Justice. Thanks are expressed to LDPSC personnel who served on the Advisory Board and who helped with data collection and to the offenders who volunteered to participate in the study.
PY - 1990/3
Y1 - 1990/3
N2 - The prison adjustment, expectations, and attitudes of offenders participating in a shock incarceration program were compared to offenders who dropped out of the program and to a comparable group of offenders serving their sentence in a regular prison. There was some evidence that before beginning the program, dropouts from shock incarceration had less prosocial attitudes than those who continued in the program. Shock incarceration offenders differed from those in the regular prison in their adjustment to prison, in their attitudes, and in the changes in these over time. In comparison to regular prison inmates, they were more positive about their prison experience, about their ability to make positive changes in their lives, and in general prosocial attitudes. It was concluded that those who continued voluntarily in the program showed evidence of positive change during shock incarceration. Future research should examine whether these changes are related to performance during parole.
AB - The prison adjustment, expectations, and attitudes of offenders participating in a shock incarceration program were compared to offenders who dropped out of the program and to a comparable group of offenders serving their sentence in a regular prison. There was some evidence that before beginning the program, dropouts from shock incarceration had less prosocial attitudes than those who continued in the program. Shock incarceration offenders differed from those in the regular prison in their adjustment to prison, in their attitudes, and in the changes in these over time. In comparison to regular prison inmates, they were more positive about their prison experience, about their ability to make positive changes in their lives, and in general prosocial attitudes. It was concluded that those who continued voluntarily in the program showed evidence of positive change during shock incarceration. Future research should examine whether these changes are related to performance during parole.
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U2 - 10.1080/07418829000090501
DO - 10.1080/07418829000090501
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84946296515
SN - 0741-8825
VL - 7
SP - 125
EP - 150
JO - Justice Quarterly
JF - Justice Quarterly
IS - 1
ER -